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Subject: Re: Intel 5100 WiFi
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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