Re: Aw: Re: [9front] driver for intel wireless 7260?

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> > Gesendet: Montag, 26. Juli 2021 um 21:29 Uhr
> > Von: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net
> > An: 9front@9front.org
> > Betreff: Re: [9front] driver for intel wireless 7260?
> >
> > it falls into the family of /sys/src/9/pc/etheriwl.c
> > supported cards.
> >
> > it is just that i havnt had the hardware, so the
> > driver will ignore it.
> >
> > add pci id and initialize ctlr->family to 7000.
> >
> > you'll need iwm-8260-17 and then troubleshoot from there.
> >
> > the etheriwl driver is based on iwn/iwm obsd drivers
> > (becasue there is no other "documentation"),
> > so check there for differences and switches around the
> > device family for unhandled cases.
> >
> > money is not a problem. time and availability of hw is.
> > you will do yourself and us more good by just doing the
> > work.

Quoth Eckard Brauer <eckard.brauer@gmx.de>:
> Just a few weeks ago, I had some mailing with Kemal for that topic, as
> he tried to help me on that. My little understanding reached it's end
> early, and unfortunately we had no luck getting the card to work
> finally, but Kemal already did some patches I tried out.
> 
> Maybe it's of some help to have that patches, so notify me, I should
> have them all here.

You might also want to have the openbsd source pulled up to
compare--altho' the code was *initially* derived from the openbsd
source code, it's different, and there's been continuous development
of the driver in OpenBSD.  Perhaps looking at that might make it
easier to get it working.

https://github.com/openbsd/src (look at /sys/dev/pci/if_iwn.c )