Re: Getting wpi to work

["Nuno Antunes" <nuno.antunes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/9/07, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/9/07, km b <kmb810@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/9/07, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to see ppl with the hardware and time to work on a new
> > > driver for 3945 instead of struggling with the any porting of wpi
> > > (including netbsd's and freebsd's).  It does not work very well ever
> > > since it borned in OpenBSD, you can read various complains about it on
> > > their mail list yourself.
> >
> > I've got both. I'd like to work on the new driver rather than the port.
>
> Nice!
>
> >
> > > Intel's new 3945 project should have provided a good reference driver:
> > > http://intellinuxwireless.org/
> > > But you still need to read the reference driver, which mainly depends
> > > on how much time you can spend on it and will not be difficult.
> >
> > I'd rather refrain myself from refering any gpl'd driver. I searched
>
> Nah, don't be frightened by the recent OpenBSD bcw stuffs.
> Referencing the registers, their values and order of register
> operations is quite different from taking the code itself directly.
>
> > for the specs for 3945 on
> > intel site but in vain. could you provide me with specs.
>
> They never gave out any specs, but you can try your luck by contacting them :)

Well, in fact the new iwlwifi driver is under a license similar to BSD
according to http://intellinuxwireless.org/LICENSE.iwlwifi-ucode (I am
no law expert though...)

Cheers,
Nuno