Re: Nokia D211

"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
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            Vaclav Petricek <[email protected]> writes:
: Part of the linux driver for Nokia D211 (wlan+gprs+gsm PCMCIA card) comes
: in binary form only with a license prohibiting reverse engineering.

Yes.

: Is there a chance it will be supported by FreeBSD in the near future?
: Are we dependend on nokia to disclose their source or would it be possible
: to get at least some of the card functionality using standard drivers? Is
: it likely nokia would provide the sources or a *BSD driver?

I've been working on a driver for a while that would wrap the Linux
driver.  It has been slow going and might not be possible in the end.
I've a skeleton driver, but it gives nothing but panics when I try to
use it and it gets into the binary gooball :-(  Maybe if I can find a
few days to concentrate on it I could make more progress.

Warner
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