Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:45:02 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: jT <toyj@union.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Steve Tremblett <tremblett@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Intel 5100 WiFi Message-ID: <4920E8BE.7080208@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <9f8af95f0811161819i58e3f8bep851ca9ae25c2a43f@mail.gmail.com> References: <ee2f4e60811161644x6ad6fd4ey9bccd8db6ab62ae7@mail.gmail.com> <9f8af95f0811161819i58e3f8bep851ca9ae25c2a43f@mail.gmail.com>
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jT wrote: > 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 > > iwn firmware does not require a sysctl ack. Sam
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