Michel Behr <michelbehr%gmail.com@localhost> writes: > I discovered that my laptop's wireless card (intel centrino 2230) is not > supported by netbsd. How can I help develop the correspondent driver? Where > are the "projects" about driver development located in netbsd? And how can > I find out who's working on this... and how I might help? Are there > specific teams that develop drivers...? I am not aware of organization for driver development. Pretty much people work on what they want and send it in, and communicate via the lists. Some suggestions: Try current; perhaps you meant that you did, but often drivers in -current are ahead of -5 and -6. Look at iwn(4). Look in src/sys/dev, and in particular in the ic and pci subdirs. Generally there is a driver for a chipset, and attach routines for cardbus and other buses, so that the same driver works for varying attachment methods. Post (on port-i386?) the pci device ids that are found. Look in OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and perhaps dragonfly, and see if any of them have a driver. There's a long tradition among the BSDs of porting drivers from one to the other. As long as this is noted in comments and commit messages, pretty much everyone is happy about it. Boot linux, and capture the dmesg/pci device info/etc. For all other systems, if you find one with support, figure out what driver is used, and what other chips are supported. Then look for those other chips in NetBSD. It may be that your chip is very close to one that is supported, in which case adding it isn't that hard.
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