[9fans] centrino wireless driver

[9fans] centrino wireless driver

[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

Re: [9fans] centrino wireless driver

[Alberto Rodriguez Galdo]

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
>


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Alberto Rodriguez Galdo
argaldo@gmail.com