Re: [RFT] Intel 3945abg wireless driver (wpi)

From: Max Laier <max_at_love2party.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:52:44 +0100
On Friday 02 November 2007, Lars Engels wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:23:44AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
> > Howdy All,           I'm pleased to announce the first 'official'
> > experimental version of the wpi wireless driver and hence require
> > your help in making it become stable.
> > Expect a few things not to work (ie bg scanning, setting txpower) but
> > in general the driver should be usable in station mode (hostap is not
> > yet supported).
> >
> > If you've got an Intel 3945abg wireless card, grab the tarball at:
> >
> >   
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~benjsc/downloads/wpi/20071102-freebsd-wpi.
> >tar.gz
> >
> > Untar and follow the instructions in the README.
> > If you want more info about the driver, or to checkout the FAQ
> > checkout:
> >
> >    http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Wpi
> >
> > I'm interested in all reports related to panics, things not working
> > as expected, etc. The driver still has debug enabled so expect a few
> > messages to be dumped to the screen whilst in use.
> >
> > Finally, many thanks to all those that have been helping debug the
> > driver along the way.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >    Benjamin
>
> Good to know that someone is still working on it.
> However, it doesn't work for me. I cannot load the firmware:
>
> lars_at_ttyp3 # kldload wpifw
> lars_at_ttyp3 # dmesg
> wpifw: You need to read the LICENSE file in
> /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/. wpifw: If you agree with the license,
> set legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (wpifw_fw, 0xc6d1151c, 0) error 1
>
> lars_at_ttyp3 # grep legal.intel_wpi.license_ack /boot/loader.conf
> legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
>
> lars_at_ttyp3 # sysctl legal
> sysctl: unknown oid 'legal'

It's not a sysctl it's in kenv, but if it's in loader.conf it should be in 
kenv, too.

> And I even read the license! ;-)


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