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From: sklower@oboe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: WaveLan driver for FreeBSD?
Date: 8 Feb 1996 23:39:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <4fagvj$c8n@redwood.cs.sc.edu>, Kevin Brown <kbrown> wrote:
>Is there an existing WaveLan device driver for FreeBSD? I'm getting a WaveLan
>card soon and I need to get it set up. I know that Linux has a driver but I
>really don't want to switch to Linux from BSD.
Hari Balakrishnan, a graduate student here did a BSDI driver, (for the
use of the mobile computing group here). They gave me permission to
put various versions of the driver out for anonymous ftp from
vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu:~ftp/pub/kls/wavelan
There is normal version wl.c, a pcmcia version wlp.c, a 2.4 gigahertz
versions wlg.c. It will probably take some hacking for FreeBSD, but
far less than starting with the linux version.
>If there is no current driver, how hard would it be for someone with no device
>driver experience to port the Linux driver to BSD? (impossible?) I looked at
>the Linux code and it's 2300 lines of unpleasantness.
I'ld recommend somebody who had already done some kernel hacking to do the
job. It isn't that it hard, but the conventions are different from user-level
programming and it takes a while to get used to.