Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:58:20 -0500 From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> To: Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org>, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is there a laptop ? Message-ID: <a037f7360903120658i2096a56fwded04a4f7a77da22@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87k56uvop2.fsf@chateau.d.lf> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903100612580.9131@localhost> <49B8498B.9080402@onetel.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0903120816190.9463@localhost> <87k56uvop2.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
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For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The kernel panics every time I load it. I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver ( http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)... Even though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is not picked up and it's definitely an AR5008. - John On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> wrote: > Saifi Khan writes: > > [...] > > > Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work > > with FreeBSD ? > > Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the > driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets. > > -- > Ashish SHUKLA >
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