Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:19:49 -0500 From: jT <toyj@union.edu> To: "Steve Tremblett" <tremblett@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel 5100 WiFi Message-ID: <9f8af95f0811161819i58e3f8bep851ca9ae25c2a43f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ee2f4e60811161644x6ad6fd4ey9bccd8db6ab62ae7@mail.gmail.com> References: <ee2f4e60811161644x6ad6fd4ey9bccd8db6ab62ae7@mail.gmail.com>
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Steve, A few Iwn drivers *are* supported, mine being iwn 4965 -- is supported and has been committed to 8.0-CURRENT. You can find more information about development on this hardware here : http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/iwn. I'm pretty sure that there is not that much work done on your model yet. Yes it will require a firmware blob as the 4965 one does. You are required to take notice to the legal aspects of the blob via setting a key in loader.conf. In terms of FreeBSD aligning with OpenBSD, I have no idea -- i have only run BSD. We *always* prefer Free as in Freedom -- hence FreeBSD -- again not sure what the OBSD policies are. In addition this is probably a better question for freebsd-mobile or freebsd-questions Thanks and good luck -- /jT http://git.zen-sources.org/?p=kernel/zenmm.git;a=summary
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