From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 17:53:04 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 7689C16A4CF for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from coruscant.rfc1149.org (coruscant.rfc1149.org [217.160.130.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB3D43D49 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arne@rfc2549.org) Received: by coruscant.rfc1149.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id B96133D10; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:53:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from kamino.rfc1149.org (kamino.rfc1149.org [2001:8d8:81:11::2]) by coruscant.rfc1149.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04913CE5; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:53:00 +0100 (CET) Received: by kamino.rfc1149.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7EC6112; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:52:58 +0100 (CET) To: David Coder In-Reply-To: <20040310180719.D19988-100000@porky.dcoder.com> (David Coder's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:33:18 -0500 (EST)") References: <20040310180719.D19988-100000@porky.dcoder.com> From: Arne Schwabe Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:52:58 +0100 Message-ID: <86vflcfbmd.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on coruscant.rfc1149.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel 2100 wireless on thinkpads X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:53:04 -0000 David Coder writes: > 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? Try disabling cardbus support in order to get the em working (Sounds really strange but really helped my on my T40) Arne -- 666 is the number of the beast ;P 6667 is the number of you losing whatever social life you might have had. -- (bash #214827)