Re: iwi and (another?) Intel3945ABG

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:17:34AM +0100, Vince wrote:
> Luca Morettoni wrote:
> > Michal Mertl ha scritto:
> >> No, it is different hardware. I think I have heard there are problems
> >> with NDIS (Windows) driver for this NIC and that there is some native
> >> beta driver which works.
> > 
> > anyone have this (beta) driver?
> > thanks!
> > 
> http://unsane.co.uk/~jhary/freebsd/wpi-freebsd.tgz
> 
> once extracted make a link from the wpi directory to
> /usr/src/sys/dev/wpi or it wont build correctly.
> when youve done the make;make install
> kldload firmware.ko
> kldload wpi_ucode.ko
> kldload if_wpi.ko
> 
> and you should have a wpi device and a bunch of info on the console
> (possibly including errors) I havent tried with WEP or similar as I dont
> have it turned on.

I can confirm that it's working with WEP for me. I haven't tested WPA
yet.


> Occasionally I loose connection and have to reset the wpi by
> kldunload wpi_ucode
> kldunload if_wpi
> kldload wpi_ucode

I didn't have any disconnects yet, but I'm not using the driver for too
long.

> Good luck.

I am lucky :)

Thanks a lot, Vince, I was looking for that driver for some time.


Lars

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