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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:51:07 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Shankar Giri Venkita Giri <shankargiri@icloud.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Support for Centrino -N 7260 wireless controllers
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Hi,

There's no 7260 support at the moment.

The firmware API and various other bits are different with this NIC.
>From what I can gather, it's not an easy port to iwn(4). I think
Cedric discovered this.



-a


On 17 June 2014 17:03, Shankar Giri Venkita Giri <shankargiri@icloud.com> wrote:
> I've got a motherboard with the Centrino 7260 wireless controllers. The
> FreeBSD CURRENT head does not have support for it. However, in this repo:
> https://github.com/KreizIT/FreeBSD-IWN
>
> The 7260 fw is present,leading me to believe that it may be possible to
> support the 7260 easily. Just a quick check if someone has the 7260
> controller and if someone has worked/is working on adding support to it to
> CURRENT? If not, I may give it a shot.
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