From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 22:45:45 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 4E19616A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gid.co.uk [194.32.164.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9747A43D45 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.11.7/8.11.6) id i2B6jcp52453; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:45:38 GMT (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <6.0.3.0.2.20040311063245.03787ec0@gid.co.uk> X-Sender: rbmail@gid.co.uk (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.3.0 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:45:28 +0000 To: David Coder , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: <20040310180719.D19988-100000@porky.dcoder.com> References: <20040310180719.D19988-100000@porky.dcoder.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 06:45:45 -0000 Hi, At 23:33 10/03/2004, David Coder wrote: >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. Project Evil works with this adapter (on my T41 at least). It's a work in progress on -current, but you can retrofit it to 5.x releases. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2188523+2195355+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/freebsd-current/20040125.freebsd-current and followups. >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. hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" in /boot/loader.conf, like someone already said. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254