Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:34:19 +0200 | From | Jan Dittmer <> | Subject | Re: ipw3945 status |
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Matthew Garrett schrieb: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:40:42PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > >>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
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