[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7773: Intel Wireless-N 6300 drivers
- From: "tonestone57" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:19:18 -0000
#7773: Intel Wireless-N 6300 drivers
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Reporter: jaykruer | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Network & Internet/Wireless | Version: R1/alpha3
Resolution: | Keywords: Intel, Wireless,
Blocked By: | 6300
Has a Patch: 0 | Blocking:
| Platform: All
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Comment (by tonestone57):
I had a quick look too and what Korli says is true. Haiku has same to BSD
8.2 release but you also are kinda right that there is a newer BSD driver
for that card. You just will not see it until 8.3 is released because
BSD's stable branch is not used for Haiku network drivers. ie, you will
have to wait for BSD to make newer release first.
Haiku's card support:[[BR]]
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/add-
ons/kernel/drivers/network/wlan/iprowifi4965/dev/iwn/if_iwn.c#L307
BSD 8.2 card support:[[BR]]
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.2.0/sys/dev/iwn/if_iwn.c?revision=218742&view=markup#L307
BSD stable branch card support:[[BR]]
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/sys/dev/iwn/if_iwn.c?revision=223257&view=markup#L79
The idea being if you went and downloaded current FreeBSD 8.2 release you
would get similar driver to Haiku's but if you download FreeBSD nightly
you would get the newer BSD network driver. Whether Haiku should use
FreeBSD release branch or switch to stable branch is something to discuss
on the mailing list. It is an issue of using an older driver version
versus stability of current driver. 8.2's iwn driver is 4 months + 1 week
old.
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