April 2009
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Many little bits n pieces of news
QUICK UPDATE: 18 May — I was totally off the net as my phone line went dead. It’s just come back to life and so have I. Work resumes!
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Past week or so I’ve been trying to decipher the 2nd stage working of the card in more and more depth, reading the Linux driver sources and IOKit documentation. I’m somewhat stuck trying to understand the whole...
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Got some docs+code, thanks to Intel
I got in touch with Zhu Yi from Intel who works on the Linux drivers for the Intel wifi cards. He helpfully pointed me towards some code in the Linux kernel tree which documents both 2200 and 3945+ cards in more detail than the FreeBSD code. To avoid any confusion: no Intel did not provide any internal documentation etc. because according to Yi it doesn’t exist. We did get pointed to places...
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Shared coding begins [updated 13 April]
Michael and I are both back in (our respective) town now, and a private repository has been setup. Michael has begun analyzing the source-code already, while I continue from where I left off earlier.
As for feature updates, nothing major. Just made a quick test whether the interrupt handling is still working OK. The hardware radio killswitch (usually Fn+F2 on most laptops) is working now and can...