From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 12 16:16:10 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 86C1710657E6; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:16:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jw.hendy@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f129.google.com (mail-qy0-f129.google.com [209.85.221.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CD28FC19; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:16:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jw.hendy@gmail.com) Received: by qyk35 with SMTP id 35so122591qyk.3 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=gSqEjfo3uiZw3YhRO07QtUzEdovgTYZY+aq35/JiZWQ=; b=TnfalYCT5z154qNOOafh8tr+41E57ubbI3q29V7meEaV2g4iyYkXnjgXyCAEOWqs/h RvUfxqwKULVUgz3/uKab5qExnLl4TuEqAJzaV9gRM+ApEQUJNGxpD5ZfQ34oVpjdXaRw +iVyPo51H5WytwafV75TJM1x0zPL7ci7uP9Ps= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kO0STbNrkJJgyYlq34fOX5b/EDjIlmOpjwpWVIoRPDPHAE+3rf3Pa/KCbVrhFcW/2S XZogM51H122N2nkab6gfhELzvO9YuJZYLOkTr9FhldjwwiWcGKyEoITnHybcqlYyogVX 1iOfkbw8rqfhmmcQWi/CUBWbqzxFeQSpFxH6s= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.37.74 with SMTP id w10mr60413qad.14.1236874568770; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:16:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49B9301E.30708@freebsd.org> References: <49B8498B.9080402@onetel.com> <87k56uvop2.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <49B9301E.30708@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:16:08 -0500 Message-ID: From: John Hendy To: Sam Leffler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 16:16:11 -0000 I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is. -John On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Sam Leffler wrote: > 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" >> >> >> >> > >