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Subject: Re: ThinkPad x61s
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Dan Langille wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>
>> On Mar 7, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Guy Brand wrote:
>>
>>> Dan Langille (dan@langille.org) on 04/03/2008 at 07:34 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are you running FreeBSD on a ThinkPad x61s? Details please...
>>>
>>> I do.
>>>
>>> FreeBSD FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #58: Sun Mar 2 17:36:43 CET 2008
>>> snd_hda, acpi_ibm, if_wpi for hardware specific support. Xorg
>>> 7.3 working out of the box. cpufreq behaves strangely going
>>> from AC power to battery mode and back, so I removed it from
>>> the kernel config. Fan and thermal controls are fine. 6-cell
>>> battery provides ca. 260 mn of work time.
>>
>> Had you run 7.0 on this?
>>
>> if_wpi? Is that the "ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LAN Mini-PCIe
>> US/EMEA/LA/ANZ "
>> or the "Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN"
>
> Someone told me wpi is the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG and that
> the driver is coming along nicely, but is "experimental".
With the recent patches available (see below) the experimental status is
rapidly vanishing.
Cheers,
Benjamin
> Hi,
>
>
> Here is a patch for wpi(4) which should help with the stability of the
> driver. If you have been having problems then please give it a try and
> report back. Some people have reported problems getting wpa_supplicant
> to authenticate which may not be fixed, give it a try anyway.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_head.diff
> http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/wpi_releng7.diff
>
> This includes work by Sam Leffler and Benjamin Close.
>
>
> cheers,
> Andrew (Thompson)