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From: bad@wireless.wdc.net (Bernie Doehner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Wavelan device under FreeBSD 2.1/2.2
Date: 3 Sep 1996 04:58:51 GMT
Organization: Kwik Net Communications, Ltd.
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Hi All:

Is anyone else actively working on a wavelan driver for FreeBSD?
Do you have a Wavelan card and are you interrested in helping debug our device driver?

We (buaas@wireless.wdc.net and I), have ported the bsdi driver for wavelan to 
FreeBSD and have it just barely working (as of tonite). There are still several
serious bugs/problems with our port, but when we are done, it will be 
compileable into 2.2 and 2.1 (and hopefuly 2.1.5 - haven't tried yet). 

Until we judge and the FreeBSD kernel group judge our device driver "fit for
addition to the kernel source tree", I'd like to assemble a list of
beta testers to help us in the testing process. 

Please let me know if you are interrested.

Thanks.

Bernie Doehner
bad@wireless.wdc.net

P.S. The kernel source mods are minor - just one additional source file and
a header file, plus one line in files.i386 and one in the kernel config file.