From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 02:19:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029B7106564A for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:19:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesfrancistoy@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834298FC08 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:19:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesfrancistoy@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1844640fgb.35 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:19:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=wTc1YXFUykwn2eM705Uui6HXuMrUkZoqGujGyqrw4hI=; b=ImFdOe/6ZqGOfXiAESHt/2P6hb3H1ARwwQHJkw19bcGYMYinGAxWlpoJ2sBoFPt0Bo mk/3e4TMBS/1LYOMLdxPTn6H21dN0PYpsANXeLCx9yv3RODENam8kEyTxWdJQDwpsf8l K9jKC9NPEFY38dXKiNbtkDV5zIBoafxFhgmsY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=h1+OYUKiYeRUo8dQ1BvAXSF1v3vd1BGSOyUpMWLxJzQVpncWjQz5RHC9B4ikti6/P8 Vs/vjTrl8NrO1MZH5Go09NHVsnj3zDYW3ZltmTOPeqYMqo8e386wUtueGGutN74vlhuu B8OuoRhb6fE+JY+39GvNfN+EZUlKtnbRFme3Q= Received: by 10.187.182.10 with SMTP id j10mr395432fap.12.1226888389510; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.187.221.18 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:19:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9f8af95f0811161819i58e3f8bep851ca9ae25c2a43f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:19:49 -0500 From: jT Sender: jamesfrancistoy@gmail.com To: "Steve Tremblett" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0ff927163cde58a0 Cc: freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: Intel 5100 WiFi X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:19:52 -0000 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