From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:57:56 +0100 From: Alberto Rodriguez Galdo To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] centrino wireless driver In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: b3518c72-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 One more reason to make use of the plan9 installation on my laptop 2005/11/28, Russ Cox : > 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