re-enabling if_bwi
Joe Talbott
josepht at cstone.net
Thu Jan 6 05:07:33 PST 2011
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:05:36AM +0100, Jost Tobias Springenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> since I had a few hours of free coding time at hand last night and was
> in need of a wlan card for a server, I decided to try bringing the
> if_bwi driver back into head.
>
> I therefore backported the changes from freebsd and changed the
> locking procedure to use the wlan_serialize calls.
> Right now the module compiles and can be loadded correctly. The
> firmware is however not loaded / found.
> Does anyone Have a pointer to what I might be doing wrong there ?
Take a look at how wpi and iwn are doing firmware for examples.
>
> The changes I made are attached as patch files, if anyone else wants to
> try them.
I haven't yet looked at the patches, but it's great that you've
started this work.
Thanks,
Joe
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