From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 12 14:10:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FFB10656D5 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jw.hendy@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f129.google.com (mail-qy0-f129.google.com [209.85.221.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1D98FC1B for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jw.hendy@gmail.com) Received: by qyk35 with SMTP id 35so108348qyk.3 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:10:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+vY9PKuysg0ih4sL/6FPh5mIytzC66bR4vJwsjSpcmU=; b=xzVEsx+i3vZurlrCludVyiOpJaE8xBKfvGBRH/oJNromQIIhA2GIjFkQtp1b8UTqpF ywLf24xa9prNmC/8CIzLkj6KN7tDUEz4hBJPPrdXmrUfbYCo6diZmw4gWDUWsVlcnXCN LwNT43n+vUFXCkPGTC7s2M7CK5c9YeohkkBTQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=lSnhoh4FAFp8QMNOmtOU2+rLhPbdpBzHlQfLzZIJHD7GgsdsYbFaJRaU2ihWCzLv48 uFoD9d31eJm6facwAK6GBdT2S3eSBTgLFQqh0ycuUCgjTcaDa2zkDs5NGptWTi3KIS7F n8tg8xitzALVMLXa/vO/mB2RZb4Zcvc/EAFJI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.37.79 with SMTP id w15mr1110qad.139.1236866300349; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:58:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k56uvop2.fsf@chateau.d.lf> References: <49B8498B.9080402@onetel.com> <87k56uvop2.fsf@chateau.d.lf> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:58:20 -0500 Message-ID: From: John Hendy To: Ashish SHUKLA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Saifi Khan , Chris Whitehouse , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: is there a laptop ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:10:29 -0000 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 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 >