Re: Interrupt routing and friends ...

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Bill Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
> Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Bill Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Bill Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> *trimmed*   (good news in re 'head' having the missing stuff...)
>>
>> We actually have bwi(4) one year ago, so it should be in 1.12/2.0
>> release.  Since it is based on reverse engineered spec, I don't want
>> to add it into GENERIC.  The missing of 5906 support in 2.0 release is
>> mainly because that I goofily forgot to ask the user to try without
>> ACPI :P
>>
>
> UPDATE:
>
> Using, in 'live CD' mode, LATEST-Devel.iso.bz2        10-Nov-2008 09:09
> unamed as: 2.1.0-DEVELOPMENT #0 Mon Nov 10 00:54:38
>
> Mixed news:
>
>
> Positives: +++
>
> - bge0 is configured.
>
> - Realtek on USB is configured.
>
> - No crash or entry to debugger, so nothing to convey.
>
> - I was able to manually assign a LAN IP and scp the two dmesg.boot to the
> PowerBook for onpassing.
>
>
> Negatives: ---
>
> - bwi chipset does not show up as such. Is it even probed?

kldload if_bwi
You will need to fetch firmware mentioned in the bwi manpage.

As far as I know, only some older 4311 parts work correctly.

Best Regards,
sephe

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