Subject: Re: introducing ath(4) and the FreeBSD 802.11 layer
To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/13/2003 23:37:45
On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 09:27 PM, Sam Leffler wrote:
> ath on pci should cover cardbus (does on FreeBSD at least). Thinkpads
> w/
> minipci mostly work; there are some issues. Some have an rfkill
> switch that
> needs some support in the driver that isn't present yet. Also, some
> machines
> use different PCI device id's and some BIOS support in an effort to
> force
> only "approved drivers" to work with the cards. We're working out
> this issue
> too.
On NetBSD, PCI and CardBus are handled separately (though several
people, including me, consider this to be a mistake).
So, for now, anyway, we'll need to add a separate CardBus front-end for
ath.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>