Re: [Evil project] / ibm thinkpad t41

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Bill Paul wrote:

> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, jason kawaja wrote:
> > 
> > > actually, other users have just got this working.  however i notice yet
> > > another change at :
> > 
> >    I know that, this is what i find puzzling: either this is a problem
> >    specific to my laptop model, or specific to ... me ;)
> > 
> > >  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/if_ndis/if_ndis.c
> > > 
> > > that was made after the rest of us got it working.  which one are you
> > > using? 1.55 or 1.56?
> > 
> >    rev 1.55. But no revision of if_ndis worked for me, never, ever. it
> >    always hung whenever i tried to load if_ndis.ko 
> > 
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> You're making the unwarranted assumption that your copy of w70n51.sys
> and w70n51.inf are exactly the same as everyone else's. Listen up people:
> Intel has released several different versions of this driver. Some of
> them have issues that others do not. If you don't bother to SEND ME
> the driver that you have, I can't address your problem.

   indeed. this is an assumption i was contemplating to stop making, but
   you beat me on this ;)

> So stop wasting time and send me your copies of w70n51.sys and w70n51.inf.
> Ok? Good.

   Great. they are coming, out of band to not add yet more noise to the
   list

      - yann