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

Oh yeah, I am.

but wl likely hasn't been tested in a long time.. I think my last pair
of wl(4) NICs disappeared in 2001.


-a


On 22 September 2014 13:35, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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