On Sunday 19 November 2006 19:26, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:26:08 +0100 > > Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sound is ALC861, > > Probably HDA, you should test the snd_hdac driver. Look on -multimedia > mailinglist for clues. > > > wireless 3945ABG. > > As far as I know (and I'm interested, because I have a laptop with > this device myself), nothing has happened on this front. It seems that > Intel, for reasons of their own, isn't able to (or doesn't want to) > release necessary docs to make a good driver. > OpenBSD (4.0) have support for this via the wpi driver, but it doesn't > support WPA yet, only WEP.
There is an experimental FreeBSD version of this driver available via: http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/wpi/ ... there are a couple of people interested in getting this working, see Threads on freebsd-net@ from October and November. > Your best bet would be to > a) exchange the network card, if possible. Some laptop network cards > are miniPCI and can be exchanged, but I do not know if this is the case > for the 3945ABG. > b) use an external usb network "dongle". Look at the ural driver, you > can find some of the supported devices quite cheap. I dont know how > good they are, I have just tested one, and have some issues with it > (stability) but haven't been able to rule out if it is something with > my setup yet. -- /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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