KDE on DFly & question about firmware

Thomas Schlesinger schlesinger at netcologne.de
Sat Sep 2 01:26:13 PDT 2006


Am Samstag, 2. September 2006 04:11 schrieb Sepherosa Ziehau:

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> > I use an ipw2200 (second generation Centrino), and it works. The driver
> > for this chip is integrated in the DFly sourcecode (the module is
> > if_iwi), the firmware for the WLAN adapter can be installed via pkgsrc.
> > You can find a howto in our wiki. There are some little problems:
> >
> > 1. I ping in  30-second-intervalls to an address in my WLAN from my
> > notebook (ping -i 30), otherwise I lose connection after a while.
>
> Please try:
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/if_iwi.c.diff

Sepherosa,

I've switched back my notebook to KUbuntu yesterday to play with Xgl and use 
my DVB-T reciever, so I can't try it out at the moment, unfortunately.

Thomas





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