Bug 129977

Summary: [UPDATE] net/acx100 to latest (working?) version
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Alexey Shuvaev 2008-12-27 17:00:16 UTC 
First of all, about 'meat' changes.
This is an updated driver for Texas Instruments' PCI and PCMCIA
wireless adaptors.
The driver compiles and kld[un]loads successfully on i386 and amd64 CURRENT,
but I have no hardware to actually test it.
In any case, I think it is better than totally broken port (as it is now).
It's also deserves noticing that the driver does not use new multi-bss
framework (src/UPDATING entry 20080420). Again I believe it is better
than nothing.
From http://dev.kewl.org/acx100+111/

This experimental version of the ACX(4) driver for FreeBSD-6.1+ should work for
infrastructure clients, Ad-hoc connections and in a limited form as an access
point. In the latter case functionality such as power saving or client to
client bridging is not implemented.

ifconfig is used to configure the ip address of the adapter which initialises
the connection and the application "acxtool" found in the acxtool directory
should be compiled to configure attributes such as channel, ssid etc, however
ifconfig may perform most of these operations but the feature set at this time
is incomplete.






As for port itself, I claim maintanership since current maintainer seems
to be gone. See, for example, PRs 116120 and 123937 for maintainers timeout,
and current state of the port (DEPRECATED with EXPIRATION_DATE=2008-09-19).
I am not the perfect maintainer due to lack of hardware also, but...

I have renamed the port to line-up with upstream naming (and the port
supports now not only ACX100 chips but ACX111 also).

The last but important hint is to pay attention to net/gacxtool port.
It was marked as DEPRECATED 7 days ago (19 Dec 2008) due to broken
dependency net/acx100 (this port). With this update it is no longer true,
but I'm sure that it will not compile against current x11-toolkits/gtkdatabox
(it was developed with 0.2.4.5 and now it is 0.9.0.1 :).
The big problem here that Leonid Zolotaev is not only current net/gacxtool
maintainer but the only developer also. With the latest release from
2004-10-20 and latest news on web site from 2005-09-22 I'm afraid,
the project is dead. I don't know if I can help here :(

Fix: Patch attached with submission follows:
Comment 1 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-12-27 17:00:24 UTC 
Maintainer of net/acx100,

Please note that PR ports/129977 has just been submitted.

If it contains a patch for an upgrade, an enhancement or a bug fix
you agree on, reply to this email stating that you approve the patch
and a committer will take care of it.

The full text of the PR can be found at:
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/129977

-- 
Edwin Groothuis via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool
edwin@FreeBSD.org
Comment 2 Edwin Groothuis freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-12-27 17:00:25 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Awaiting maintainers feedback (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
Comment 3 Pav Lucistnik freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-03-24 15:51:20 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Committed, thanks!
Comment 4 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-03-24 16:05:13 UTC 
pav         2009-03-24 16:04:55 UTC

  FreeBSD ports repository

  Modified files:
    net/acx100           Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist 
  Log:
  - Move the port to ACX100 and ACX111 6.1
  - Switch maintainer to the submitter
  - Unbroken, undeprecated
  
  PR:             ports/129977
  Submitted by:   Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
  Approved by:    maintainer timeout (3 months)
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.9       +35 -26    ports/net/acx100/Makefile
  1.3       +6 -3      ports/net/acx100/distinfo
  1.3       +11 -7     ports/net/acx100/pkg-descr
  1.3       +7 -4      ports/net/acx100/pkg-plist
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