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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] centrino wireless driver
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:47:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0511280547o1cda2062yd27822231ffd4445@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-28 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-28 13:47 Russ Cox [this message]
2005-11-28 15:57 ` Alberto Rodriguez Galdo

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