Re: Looking for various wifi hardware

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 11:39, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Not directly linked to that, but...
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 13:40, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I am still working on wlan enhancements and would like to get more different
> > chipsets localy testable in my hands.
> >
> > I have a list of all our wlan drivers and the ones I have already marked
> > here:
> >
> >         https://wiki.NetBSD.org/Driver_state_matrix/
>
> This page points to the https://wiki.netbsd.org/Wifi_renewal_on_hg/
> page, which shows
>
> hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src-draft

After I got it, I tried to build kernel and modules; the modules build
failed in some usb-based module; I then tried just to build a kernel
(all that after 'hg up wifi' reported some 260 modified files). The
failure was in  src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c and the error messages all
are like:
....
 24 /home/xci/src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c:270:6: error: 'struct
ieee80211com' has no member named 'ic_ifp'; did you mean 'ic_dfs'?
 28 /home/xci/src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c:273:16: error:
'IEEE80211_C_WEP' undeclared (first use in this function); did you
mean 'IEEE80211_C_WME'?
 33 /home/xci/src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c:275:6: error: 'struct
ieee80211com' has no member named 'ic_state'; did you mean 'ic_sta'?
 47 /home/xci/src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c:276:26: error: 'struct
ieee80211com' has no member named 'ic_myaddr'; did you mean
'ic_macaddr'?
 56 /home/xci/src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c:301:6: error: 'struct
ieee80211com' has no member named 'ic_ibss_chan'; did you mean
'ic_bsschan'?
 60 /home/xci/src-draft/sys/dev/ic/an.c:304:39: error: 'struct
ieee80211com' has no member named 'ic_myaddr'; did you mean
'ic_macaddr'?
....


>
> This now fails when using py39-mercurial 5.9.2 - in
> python3.9/site-packages/mercurial/revlogutils/rewrite.py line 592,
> with:
>
> AttributeError: 'memoryview' object has no attribute 'startswith'
>
> The easiest is to update py-mercurial to 5.9.3 (the buglet is actually
> commented there). The upgrade appears trivial.
>
> Chavdar
>
>
>
> >
> > As you can see I lack most of the USB chipsets, mostly because it is
> > not easy to order "by chipset name". If you have any pointers, please
> > contact me off-list.
> >
> > I'm also interested in PCI and PCIe cards (but only have limited test
> > slots available).
> >
> > If you happen to have any spare pcmcia or cardbus cards and could ship them
> > within Europe (and don't need them back) please also contact me off-list.
> >
> > Martin
>
>
>
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