On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > >On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > > >>On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > >> > > > >>>This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be > > > >>>quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in > > > >>>reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this > > > >>>can be sorted. > > > >>I am interested in doing this. Please advise on how I can get these > > > >>bits. > > > > > > > >I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats > > > >me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver. > > > > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with the intel wireless ethernet. > > > > > > The iwn driver in CURRENT works well. > > > > > > The http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch patch for > > > the 88E8040 simply doesn't work. It is not because of lack of testing > > > (which I have performed for Pyun who wrote the patch), but apparently > > > because of lack of reliable documentation. There is a driver for > > > > Another problem is lack of hardware. 88E8040 seems to be intialized > > after applying the patch but link establishment seem to fail. :-( > > Yong-Hyeon, >
:-) > I can purchase and send you a Marvel 88E8040 NIC, assuming we can find a > PCI or PCIe card somewhere that uses one. Otherwise, I could purchase a > motherboard which uses the IC and send that to you. > I failed to find a standalone PCI/PCIe NIC based on 88E8040 controller in local store. > Let me know if this would be of any help! > Having a hardware surely helps a lot! -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
