Re: ipw3945 status

Jan Dittmer
2006-07-30T11:34:54Z

Matthew Garrett schrieb:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:40:42PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
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>>I'm unfortunate enough to have x60 with ipw card. Card works okay, but
>>driver is 16K LoC and needs binary daemon (ugh). Plus, it lives as an
>>external module...
>
>
> I have a mostly working replacement for the binary daemon, but it causes
> the firmware to crash at the point where it triggers an association. If
> anyone's keen on trying to figure out what's up, I'll clean up the code
> and stick it somewhere.

Why not get rid of the daemon like bsd did [0]? Otherwise in
5 years you'll have 42 daemons running which communicate with
the firmware of various devices, each having a different inter-
face.

Jan

[0] http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650