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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:15:43 +0100
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>, Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>
Subject:   Re: driver for Intel WiFi Link 1000?
Message-ID:  <200911301715.43863.bschmidt@techwires.net>
In-Reply-To: <179b97fb0911291430n52f04136g49acb5ee6305a5aa@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4B12E897.3090008@omnilan.de> <179b97fb0911291430n52f04136g49acb5ee6305a5aa@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sunday 29 November 2009 23:30:54 Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer
> 
> <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de> wrote:
> > Dear driver coders,
> >
> > my new notebook has the Intel WiFi Link 1000 chipset (0x8086, 0x0083).
> > A quick look at intels developer sites doesn't answer if the chip is
> > compatible  with the precessor 5300/5100.
> > Has anybody any experience with this wlan device?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Harry
> 
> Bernhard Schmidt has a repository with a recent port of the OpenBSD
> iwn(4) driver, available for testing, in an svn repo:
> 
> http://svn.techwires.net/svn/projects/freebsd/sys
> 
> It should provide support for the 1000 series chips, although neither
> I or Bernhard have a card to test with.
> 
> I'm testing the code on 8-STABLE...

True, this bits are coming from the OpenBSD merge.
Quoting from the commit:
"- initial support for 1000 series and initial bits for upcoming 6000
  series (untested as hardware is not available to the general public)"

It looks as being complete though, feedback appreciated.

-- 
Bernhard



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