From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 09:57:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E071065679 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:57:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from relay.pixi.com (relay.pixi.com [206.127.224.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBC48FC12 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from leka.aloha.com (leka.aloha.com [206.127.224.85]) by relay.pixi.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o159uv5s019523; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:56:57 -1000 (HST) Received: from [10.0.1.10] (atm-251-63.pixi.com [206.127.251.63]) by leka.aloha.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o159urww019503; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:56:54 -1000 (HST) From: Gary Dunn To: William Bulley In-Reply-To: <20100203154816.GA91140@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20100203154816.GA91140@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:56:51 -1000 Message-ID: <1265363811.1504.6.camel@slate01> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE driver support on Thinkpad T500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:57:00 -0000 On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:48 -0500, William Bulley wrote: > My T500 has Intel 5300 (AGN) wifi hardware on-board, but it is not > detected by any of the FreeBSD wireless device drivers I found in > the GENERIC kernel. I have rebuilt my kernel with all the wireless > device drivers listed in the GENERIC kernel and am running 7.2-STABLE. > > Would it do any good to upgrade to 8.0-STABLE, or am I out of luck > with this particular piece of wireless hardware? If so, I am hoping > that Lenovo designed the T500 with a removable wifi module so that I > might (possibly) replace it with one supported by the ath(4) driver. > I just put 8.0-STABLE on my Fujitsu T1010 with Intel 5100 AGN and the iwn driver works perfectly. This what I put in /etc/rc.conf. (My home network is "Oz," I do not use encryption, and I restrict access by MAC address.) # iwn0 is built-in wifi wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid=Oz" And here is output of ifconfig: $ ifconfig msk0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=11a ether 00:17:42:f4:ec:37 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier iwn0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:16:ea:68:d5:dc media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 wlan0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:16:ea:68:d5:dc inet 10.0.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid Oz channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1e:52:7a:36:af country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu osp@aloha.com http://openslate.net/ http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ Sent from Slate001