NDISulator and "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG" - no connection cache and signal strength info

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В пн, 20/09/2004 в 10:43 +0200, Jonas Hauge пишет:
> Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> > Hi 
> > 
> > Exercising on fresh 6-CURRENT
> > 
> > ndis0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection> mem
> > 0xd0201000-0xd0201fff irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci2
> > ndis0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> > ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
> > ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:35:03:82:74
> > ndis0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> > ndis0: 11g rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> 
> Have you tried the native driver which Damien Bergamini has written?
> 
> http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ - it works perfectly for p/w 2100 
> and should do the same for p/w 2200.

they do significant progress with 2200, when I last time check this url,
i have found in FAQ only this:

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Does this driver support the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG adapter?

NO. The 2200BG adapter is different from the 2100. The ipw driver will
not work with 2200BG adapters.
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(it is still in FAQ), 

but they has good news:

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September 15, 2004
First association to a 802.11g access point and first packets
sent/received with the iwg driver! There is still a lot of work to do
but I hope I'll be able to release a first beta for the beginning of
next week! There will be less pre-releases than for ipw, the first
version of iwg will already support WEP and radiotap! The first version
of iwg will support FreeBSD-CURRENT and NetBSD-CURRENT. 

September 04, 2004
I've made a lot of progress in writing a driver for Intel® PRO/Wireless
2200BG and 2915ABG network adapters! It will probably be another driver
(named iwg?) because there are some important differences between the
2100 and the 2200BG/2915ABG adapters that makes it impossible to merge
into a single driver. The way the firmware is downloaded to the adapter
is completely different (2200BG/2915ABG adapters use DMA transfers) and
the structures are different too. 
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So, I hope driver will be available in near future.

Also, I hope driver will be commited into FreeBSD-CURRENT

-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenchikov
vova at fbsd.ru