From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 03:49:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14828106566C; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:49:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744E68FC0C; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:49:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy18 with SMTP id 18so463789ewy.43 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:49:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=krLOro4aJGRo2+WQbCGB8rluPQE1/sW45GpQy8mx4Sk=; b=SLcic5HgOAhtw2F23LDw59lcm6cHT6KUzd8kQlpsaQSpXUoaBuMplGvtE34yV1E5hw 9MyCRQpRIqKApd9aS0pQxWBWFEWpZiHzJZZ95mzntnSNIuwuhn7D9UbY35Ih1KeoKG0f 4Aj+HnvwES2+q1ZMrIWYUZyRY+IyOxX+4te/s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Xw4dsIc2aCCb998ULgmrFK3sFP0QN5bNZN/0bUBiY6DDWAwRYG2/gHD3PFm+CGRuIp HuiwxG8Eypt02q54zo1CNdwJ8JklNEgMS8zKDYcQ9ipmMPXDzWv6htcQdtqIqEgQeaVi EDHxXU5JufifqBho2iGnvLdPPoVMrqC1AYoSg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.211.128.6 with SMTP id f6mr11328639ebn.15.1255576797503; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:19:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091014233348.GA66756@calvin.ustdmz.roe.ch> References: <20091009170839.142800@gmx.net> <200910092003.57367.bschmidt@techwires.net> <4AD632D8.1070402@freebsd.org> <20091014233348.GA66756@calvin.ustdmz.roe.ch> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:19:57 +0000 Message-ID: <179b97fb0910142019u455995a4s2cdcf8ba744d98bf@mail.gmail.com> From: Brandon Gooch To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Lawrence Stewart , Bernhard Schmidt , Lutz Bichler , Vassilis Laganakos , Brandon Gooch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Intel WiFi 5100/5300 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:49:51 -0000 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Daniel Roethlisberger wro= te: > Lawrence Stewart 2009-10-14: >> Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> > On Friday 09 October 2009 19:08:39 Lutz Bichler wrote: >> > > does anybody know what happened to the attempts to support >> > > Intel WiFi 5100/5300 interfaces in the iwn-driver? Are any >> > > patches available which could be used to start working on >> > > support for these interfaces? >> > >> > I'm curious too, as I'm playing with idea to start porting >> > the latest changes to if_iwn from OpenBSD. Already started >> > with adding the 5000 series firmware to iwnfw... >> >> Most recent effort to port Intel 5100 support that I'm aware of >> was done by Daniel Roethlisberger (cc'd). He has the work >> kicking around in a private svn repo. No idea what state it's >> in though. > > I haven't had a chance to work on this for some time. =A0A bunch of > other folks are interested and/or working on it. =A0I've added two > of the most recently active ones to the Cc: list. > > The code in my svn repo [1] is not up to date with all the 802.11 > changes in -current. =A0Status is still that scanning works, but > associating (tx actually) fails with a firmware exception. > Brandon has made some progress on why this is happening, but no > real fix yet I think. > > [1] https://svn.roe.ch/iwn/trunk > > -- > Daniel Roethlisberger > http://daniel.roe.ch/ > Hi everyone. Yes, it's true that I've found SOMETHING, although I'm still investigating why that something is happening in the first place. I'm having to work on it in between "real life", so that means I need the working, current driver in tree most of the time. I have a 5300 in another computer I'm planning on hacking around on in the near future so I can have both a 4965 and 5000 series test environment. Right now, I'm reading through these: man -k ieee80211 ...and friends. I don't know much about the technology, so I decided to start over from the beginning, making this whole "iwn driver update" more of a "learn FreeBSD's IEEE802.11 layer" thing (a long-term project). So, yeah, I'll share more as I get it :) -Brandon