From: Alberto Rodriguez Galdo <argaldo@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] centrino wireless driver
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:57:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8ae983d0511280757o68c26073g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0511280547o1cda2062yd27822231ffd4445@mail.gmail.com>
One more reason to make use of the plan9 installation on my laptop
2005/11/28, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>:
> I wrote the bulk of a driver for the wireless card
> found in most Intel laptops these days. It's in
> /n/sources/contrib/rsc/ipw2200.
> It is *unfinished*, i.e. *not* in working condition.
>
> I've done all the low-level card setup and framework
> for issuing commands and sending and receiving
> packets.
>
> What's left is figuring out how to scan for a base
> station, associate with it, and then the various
> wireless packet header processing in the packet
> send and receive.
>
> Also, occasionally I see "fatal errors" coming from
> the card. They seem to be associated with getting
> a lot of packets all at once, though there are plenty
> of buffers in the receive ring when that happens.
>
> I may or may not get back to finishing it, so I'm
> putting it up in case someone else wants to play.
>
> Russ
>
--
Alberto Rodriguez Galdo
argaldo@gmail.com
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