New wpi driver

[Wesley Morgan]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Florent Thoumie wrote:

>
> On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
>
>> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>> On Nov 8, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Massimo Lusetti wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>  I'm pleased to tell you i got the latest wpi driver from Damien
>>>> Bergamini to work properly on a latest -stable on an Acer laptop.
>>> 
>>> Nice work!
>> Unfortunately, it seems that this is still that unfinished driver from 
>> Damien, that circulates on the net everywhere, but it only works for some 
>> lucky people. As for me, I get an error message when loading the module, 
>> that it could not allocate resources.
>
> Haven't taken my 3945 "powered" laptop in Milan, so I haven't had the chance 
> to try it yet. Is it the same as the one we can find in deischen public space 
> on freefall?

It's very similar to the version I already had, the diff is maybe 10 
lines. I realize the driver itself is beta, but I have also found the 3945 
"card" to be a general piece of crap compared to my atheros pccard in 
terms of throughput and stability (in both windows and freebsd).


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