Re: wireless 3945ABG Wireless support

Sam Leffler wrote:
> Jeff Palmer wrote:
>> Benjamin Close wrote:
>>  
>>> Boris Kochergin wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Benjamin Adams wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> I'm currently running 6.2 on my ibm T60.
>>>>> I want to upgrade to 7.0 or 8.0.
>>>>> Do either one have the intel 3945ABG wireless driver installed by
>>>>> default?
>>>>> or where can I download the latest drivers for it?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>>> Ben Adams
>>>>> http://www.FreeBSD-World.com/
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>>>> You can get the driver for 7/8 from
>>>> http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi, and it's included in 8-CURRENT.
>>>>       
>>> And about to be MFC'ed to 7... well at least in the next day.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>    Benjamin
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>>
>> There seems to be a lot of reports of success using the wpi driver for
>> that chipset, however it's not working for everyone. Count me as one of
>> them it doesn't currently work for. You can search the archives if you
>> are interested in details.
>>
>>   
>
> If you've got a problem and want it fixed please file a PR w/
> sufficient information for someone to diagnose.  Referring to some old
> post is unlikely to result in help.
>
>    Sam
>
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>
Sam,

I didn't feel a PR was in order just yet, because I had posted and
gotten a reply from Ben with a patch he wanted me to try.  The patch got
my hardware a bit closer to associating. However it wasn't "quite there
yet."  I'm aware he's busy, and I'm quite patient.  So the fact that he
hasn't had me try anything else in the meantime doesn't annoy or bother
me in the least.

It's quite the opposite actually.  These developers who know enough to
write (or port) drivers, and then donate their time to actually _do_ it
have nothing but my utmost respect.

I didn't mean for that post to sound like "RUN AWAY!"  or like I was
complaining.  That's actually why I mentioned the large number of
success stories,  to show that many people do have it going without
problems.  I'm not sure if there are different revisions of the chip, 
or what the problem may be; but I was just making the original poster
aware that he may still have problems with it,  and he probably wouldn't
be the only one if he did.

At this point,  I'll leave it up to Benjamin Close (who is being CC'd) 
Would you prefer I filed a formal PR just to get it "on the record?"

I've tried the p4fetch.rb script mentioned on the clearchain wpi page, 
but apparantly I don't have something installed that it needs.  I have
ruby installed,  but it complains, so I'm guessing I'm missing a library
or plugin it needs.  However, I don't know or use ruby, so I have no
clue what to install.  Sadly,  downloading things from perforce is a
serious pain if doing it manually,  so I just haven't tried the p4 version.

Hope that cleared things up.  In summary:  Thanks Ben (and all the
developers!) for some seriously great work. 

Jeff