I have a dozen I can bring to the next bafug I go to :) Warner On Sep 22, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > 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
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