Re: wireless 3945ABG Wireless support

Jeff Palmer wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
>   
>> Jeff Palmer wrote:
>>     
>>> Benjamin Close wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Boris Kochergin wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> Benjamin Adams wrote:
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>>>>>           
>>>>>> 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
>   

I'm not trying to pick on you; just that I frequently see reports of 
wireless problems w/o sufficient info to even guess what's going on.  
There are many debugging facilities for wireless issues and almost 
always people figure issues out themselves once they use them.

    Sam