From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 30 16:26:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB69106566B for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:26:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mx.techwires.net (mx.techwires.net [79.140.39.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7878FC12 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:26:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jessie.localnet (unknown [212.185.121.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bschmidt) by mx.techwires.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E55833B2F; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:16:17 +0100 (CET) From: Bernhard Schmidt To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:15:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-2-686; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) References: <4B12E897.3090008@omnilan.de> <179b97fb0911291430n52f04136g49acb5ee6305a5aa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <179b97fb0911291430n52f04136g49acb5ee6305a5aa@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911301715.43863.bschmidt@techwires.net> Cc: Brandon Gooch , Harald Schmalzbauer Subject: Re: driver for Intel WiFi Link 1000? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:26:27 -0000 On Sunday 29 November 2009 23:30:54 Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer > > 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