Sepherosa Ziehau’s got a patch that updates the em(4) driver (that’s a network chipset, if it’s unfamiliar) to the latest version from Intel’s website. Give it a try if you’ve got the hardware. It’ll be in the tree in two weeks.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has more AMD64 patches for testing, and Joerg Sonnenberger has potential support for Tekram controllers (trm(4))
If you’re thinking about buying a wireless card to use with DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau recommends cards supported by the ath(4), ral(4) and acx(4) drivers. No, I’m not sure which those are.
Sepherosa Ziehau has added the ath(4) driver, for many models of wireless card, to DragonFly.
estd (Enhanced Speed Step Daemon), a program for controlling the speed (and therefore heat generation and power usage) of a Pentium M, now supports DragonFly.
Bill Marquette has ported the lnc driver from FreeBSD to DragonFly (link forthcoming), which is in itself a port of the le driver from NetBSD. Pathces are available to try it yourself, or it should be added to DragonFly soon.
YONETANI Tomokazu has added an EST (enhanced speedstep) driver, which allows certain CPUs to be reduced in speed to control battery usage and heat production. See his notes, and some tips on usage from Johannes Hofmann.
Sepherosa Ziehau has improved support for the acx networking chipset, adding WPA2 support, though not yet for the acx100.
Sepherosa Ziehau has his version of the rtw(4) driver available for testing. This is taken fromt he NetBSD driver, and is used in newer wireless cards.
Johannes Hofmann has made available a “crude” port of EST, a utility for Pentium M speed control, for DragonFly.
Sepherosa Ziehau has an experimental conversion of 802.11 support found in FreeBSD 6
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Thomas Schlesinger has written a howto on the wiki for setting up a ipw2200 network adapter.
Thomas Schlesinger is trying to get his ipw2200 wireless connection to work. The pkgsrc package sysutils/iwi_firmware will do it, though it’s not packaged as a binary, so there’s some trickery to install.
YONETANI Tomokazu got a letter from folks at JMicron, looking for someone to work on driver support for their drive controllers under DragonFly. Interested?
While on that topic, Matthew Dillon wrote some notes about device driver writing and the example driver code.
New device support is always good: Sepherosa Ziehau and Sascha Wildner have put together a driver for TI acx100/acx111 wireless network cards. It’s been tested with D-Link 520 and 650 cards. (that’s my guess on the product links, there.)
Assuming nobody finds a problem, it’ll be in the system in a week.
Adrian Nida has put together a new Atheros patch, for anyone using that chipset. Please test if you have the hardware, so that this can go in the tree – it’s overdue!
Emiel Kollof’s changes to the NVIDIA binary video driver have been committed; it will no longer break with the recent /dev changes.
Emiel Kollof’s most recent changes (committed by Matt Dillon) to the NVIDIA binary driver are in.