Re: 3com 3CRWE73796B-E1 and lucent cards

Cleaning out my inbox....

Just wanted to point out that the patch I have produced brings many
of the desirable FreeBSD/OpenBSD features mentioned in Warner's e-mail
(see below) into NetBSD. Needs testing, though.

Dave

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:28:32PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[email protected]>
>             Jasper Wallace <[email protected]> writes:
> : Can anyone recommend a brand/model number of a prism2/intersil card that is
> : know to be sold in the UK? and even better a place to buy it from? ;-)
> 
> DLINK DWL-540 I think it the one that I use.  I don't have the card in
> front of me or I'd tell you for sure.
> 
> : Symbol CF card support (downloading firmware)	NetBSD
> 
> I have this in my tree, but I have no card to test it with.
> 
> : AP scanning					NetBSD
> 
> FreeBSD has this.
> 
> : better support of card feature
> : sets, + if_media support			OpenBSD, FreeBSD (?).
> 
> This is in my tree and will be committed soon.
> 
> : COR reset support				OpenBSD, FreeBSD (?)
> 
> FreeBSD doesnt have COR reset yet.  It needs it, but it is a pita do
> do right. :-(
> 
> : I need to look ad the bsd-airtools stuff too - i think thats been merged
> : with FreeBSD now? (If so we need to make sure that the userland
> : interface for packet sniffers is the same everywhere as much as we can
> : make it).
> 
> The airtools has access point scanning in it.
> 
> : Also:
> : 
> : definitive list of RID's.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> : sort out some of the #defines (e.g. WI_IOSIZ vs. WI_IOSIZE).
> 
> Yup.
> 
> : The vairous API incompatibilities that i've found so far are:
> : 
> : letoh16 vs. le16toh
> 
> FreeBSD and NetBSD use the same.
> 
> : bzero vs. memset
> : bcopy vs. memcpy
> 
> Don't care about these one way or the other.
> 
> : timeout_* vs. callout_*
> 
> This is a big pita.
> 
> : printing pointers : %x vs %p
> 
> %p should work everywhere.
> 
> : splimp vs. splnet
> 
> All the spls are ugly.
> 
> : arc4random not on NetBSD (people keep on talking about adding it tho).
> : arpcom vs. ethercom
> : CSR_{READ,WRITE}_RAW_2 vs. CSR_{READ, WRITE}_MULTI_STREAM_2
> : (and probably other bus_space stuff too).
> : length of vairous things (u_int16_t vs. u_int8_t and reads and writes).
> : what SIOCSWAVELAN gets defined as. (not really important, cos userland will
> : pick it up too).
> 
> Yea, there's a lot of stupid diffs there.
> 
> : and thats just NetBSD vs. OpenBSD
> 
> And a bunch more for FreeBSD too :-(.
> 
> Warner
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