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Re: anyone working on BCM4318 or porting OpenBSD's bwi(4)?



On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 07:41:54PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Anyone working on Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
> Controller?
> 
> I see it is supported by OpenBSD's bwi(4) (but I never tested).
> 
> I started trying to port it over to NetBSD, but I am very unfamiliar with 
> this and have knowledge of what is needed. My only reference is comparing 
> differences for pci files for ral, rtw, and wpi (diff between OpenBSD and 
> NetBSD).
> 
> Anyone already working on bwi?

I had something almost working a few months ago...  It would make the
ieee80211 layer crash accessing NULL nodes though.

Getting it into that state isn't that much work.

I still have the mini-PCI broadcom card I was using at the time to
test, but I don't currently have a proper WiFi environment to test it
with.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
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