Re: [PATCH] Various fixes to wl(4)

On Monday, September 22, 2014 12:42:34 PM Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 22 September 2014 12:20, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, September 19, 2014 03:47:16 PM Warner Losh wrote:
> >> I got rid of my pre-802.11 WaveLAN cards about 8 years go after not
> >> having
> >> them in a system at all for 8 years. And they were about 4 years obsolete
> >> when I took them out of service… I’m not even sure I have a machine with
> >> an
> >> ISA slot to test the card, even if I still had it.
> >> 
> >> Sorry I can’t help more :)
> > 
> > If no one tests them then I will happily toss the driver into the dustbin,
> > just giving folks a chance to test patches before I do so.  (I'm secretly
> > hoping I can purge several old drivers during the current round of
> > timeout() purging.)
> 
> The wavelan/prism driver no longer works out of the box and hasn't
> since I took over the net80211 stack.
> 
> TL;DR - some changes from sam and others a few years ago to do raw
> 802.11 frame transmit just doesn't work on all the wavelan cards that
> are in use. I've asked for someone interested to go through the
> changelog and back out those changes, making the driver again a
> straight 802.3 transmit driver - but noone has. :(
> 
> So yes, you have a +1 to disconnect the wavelan driver from the build.

I think you are referring to wi(4)?

-- 
John Baldwin