[laptop-discuss] Re: Anyone following the ipw3945 wireless driver

[Quaker Fang]

Hi Gary,

Using the ndiswrapper on OpenSolaris website to build an ipw3945 driver 
can't work correctly, since that ndiswrapper has some problems with ipw3945.
The new wrapper is under testing, it can work on Toshiba M5 now.

--
Quaker

Gary Gendel wrote:
> Quaker,
>
> Any progress?  I tried building an NDISwrapper driver, which seemed to build fine, but I keep getting the "cannot attach" when I do the drv_add command.  What's the proper pci address I should be using (just in case I'm working with the wrong device).
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>   
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> A member of solaris wifi-china team is tracking on
>> this driver, and if 
>> no legal issue, will port this driver to Solaris.
>> Besides, we already have a ndiswrapper driver for
>> ipw3945, it is tested 
>> internally now. If no more problem, will be release
>> to OpenSolaris soon.
>>
>> --
>> Quaker
>>
>>
>>
>> Gary Gendel 已写入:
>>
>>     
>>> This is the next incantation of the Intel chipset,
>>>       
>> BSD has reverse engineered a driver that will be
>> released in OpenBSD 4.0.  Anyone tight with the BSD
>> group to see how difficult it would be to port to
>> OpenSolaris?  I might attempt it, if I can find the
>> source and knew how the heck to go about porting it.
>> I've only written one driver for Solaris (for a
>>  device on the sbus) and that was back in 1990.
>>
>>     
>>> My selfish motive is that I want OpenSolaris on my
>>>       
>> Thinkpad Z61 coming next month.
>>     
>>> Gary
>>>
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