From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 15:33:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544BD16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from porky.dcoder.com (porky.dcoder.com [161.58.160.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2442843D31 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:33:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dacoder@dcoder.com) Received: from porky.dcoder.com (porky.dcoder.com [161.58.160.227]) by porky.dcoder.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A2E2070C for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:33:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:33:18 -0500 (EST) From: David Coder To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040310180719.D19988-100000@porky.dcoder.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: intel 2100 wireless on thinkpads X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Coder List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:33:19 -0000 two problems with freebsd on the thinkpad t40: 1. there appears to be no freebsd driver in any release for the intel wireless lan 2100 3b mini pci adapter. 2. the intel gigabit chip that the t40 appears to work with the em driver (in my frustrating experience, anyway) only in 4.8 & 4.9, and then only with some coaxing, whereas no amount of tweaking seems to help with 5.x. unfortunately, it looks to me likely that any solution to the 1st problem will come only on 5.x, which leaves the 2nd problem. is there any light at the end of this tunnel? david =========== David Coder Network Engineer, SME NTT/Verio Sterling, VA