Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:42:31 +0000 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Intel WiFi 5100/5300 Message-ID: <179b97fb0910310842o63b48746r9380e4bf29cdc856@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910300926.32286.bschmidt@techwires.net> References: <20091009170839.142800@gmx.net> <11167f520910241241o6a1ada3cmf076add6374a1add@mail.gmail.com> <200910251024.06856.bschmidt@techwires.net> <200910300926.32286.bschmidt@techwires.net>
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> wrote: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 10:24:06 Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> On Saturday 24 October 2009 21:41:39 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> > Just wanted to make everyone aware that OpenBSD just 1 hour ago commit= ed >> > a bunch of changes to their iwn driver. maybe some of it is useful for >> > FreeBSD as well? >> >> Definitely, I'll look into that. > > Another update: > > * ICT interrupts for 5000/6000 series > * New firmware > * Initial support for 1000 series and initial bits for upcoming 6000 =A0s= eries > (untested as hardware is not available to the general public) > * Many bug fixes, including workarounds for hardware bugs > * Addresses kern/140036 > > Most of this stuff has been obtained from OpeBSD. Testes/Feedback welcome= ! > > http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/patches/freebsd/iwn/iwn_merge_20081028.dif= f.bz2 > > -- > Bernhard This is working VERY well with my 4965. I haven't had a single issue with stability, no firmware errors, I associate with APs much more quickly, and it's measurably faster. Thanks for all of your hard work Bernhard! Hope we see this in the tree soo= n... -Brandon
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