Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <trinity-1ddacfc6-8b74-4ba1-92c5-d9f246a432ef-1487006231292@3capp-mailcom-lxa08>,
Rocky Hotas <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 at 3:54 PM
>> From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%astron.com@localhost>
>> To: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
>> Subject: Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card
>[...]
>> 
>> Given that others went through the trouble of writing PCI code for exactly
>> that machine, I don't think that any BIOS setting will help you. Adjusting
>> the OpenBSD code could be a fun coding exercise, but without the machine
>> to test there is not much motivation :-)
>
>Now I understand why you didn't consider to work on the code.
>Due to my inexperience, I thought it was a more general issue, involving
>an entire "kind" of laptops, not just (or almost) one model.
>I don't know if I'm able to adapt the OpenBSD code, but now a question
>is necessary: besides the commit and code comments (that I'm already
>reading), is there any other kind of documentation about the NetBSD
>kernel and PCI? How can a kernel newbie get more info about a part of
>the NetBSD kernel internals?

Give it a try. The OpenBSD commit logs should be helpful as to what
was added and why... I guess first you need to add the missing constants
and fields to the structures...

christos