From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 12 15:54:07 2009 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 C5E62106566B for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:54:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E288FC15 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:54:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id n2CFs6KP042831 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <49B9301E.30708@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:54:06 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Hendy References: <49B8498B.9080402@onetel.com> <87k56uvop2.fsf@chateau.d.lf> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC--Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Ashish SHUKLA , Saifi Khan , Chris Whitehouse , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a laptop ? 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: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:54:08 -0000 5418 has worked for several years in HEAD. At this point the only ath chips not working in HEAD are those I haven't had access to (9280 and 9285) and 9280 support should go in shortly. About the only thing missing for ath is support for 11n (the 802.11 layer has supported 11n on other devices for several years and been used in various products). I can't comment on RELENG_7 support as I don't run it. Sam John Hendy wrote: > For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros > AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I > ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to > ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The > kernel panics every time I load it. > I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but > the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver ( > http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)... Even > though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is not > picked up and it's definitely an AR5008. > > > - John > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > > >> Saifi Khan writes: >> >> [...] >> >> >>> Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work >>> with FreeBSD ? >>> >> Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the >> driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets. >> >> -- >> Ashish SHUKLA >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >