On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Bill Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Live Free or Die
