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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:33:44 +0200
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        David Horn <dhorn2000@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Intel WiFi 5100/5300
Message-ID:  <200910210833.44121.bschmidt@techwires.net>
In-Reply-To: <25ff90d60910201611l1aeaac34j250f8c3aa566a3e6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20091009170839.142800@gmx.net> <200910202247.45866.bschmidt@techwires.net> <25ff90d60910201611l1aeaac34j250f8c3aa566a3e6@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 21 October 2009 01:11:34 David Horn wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Bernhard Schmidt
> 
> <bschmidt@techwires.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 October 2009 16:27:37 Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> >> On Thursday 15 October 2009 08:15:57 Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> >> > .. anyways, I'll post updates on  sunday.
> >>
> >> Here we go.
> >
> > Update:
> > * All reported issues should now be fixed, please verify.
> > * WPA does work.
> 
> 4965 with mode 11g WPA2/AES works well on 2.4Ghz (Have not tried
> 5Ghz/11a or 5Ghz/11n)
> 
> > Still open:
> > * Test reports welcome, especially with 4965, 5150, 5300 and 5350.
> >
> > At this point, if no issue come up, the driver has the same functionality
> > as the in tree one.
> 
> Any thoughts on IBSS or 11n mode support ?  (I could not get 4965 11ng
> mode to work, and IBSS support is disabled in the drivercaps)  Of
> course, this is on-par with the in-tree iwn driver as well.

Have not spend time on that one, another time maybe. 

> The only new issue I have found so far is that I must manually load
> iwnfw.ko before loading if_iwn.ko (the module depend used to work on
> the in-tree driver)

Hmm.. that is probably related to the rename of the firmware image, iwnfw-5000 
instead of iwnfw. Is MODULE_DEPEND(iwn, iwnfw, 1, 1, 1); an option there?

> Thanks for your work on this driver!

You're welcome :)

-- 
Bernhard



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