Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:15:43 +0100 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>, Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de> Subject: Re: driver for Intel WiFi Link 1000? Message-ID: <200911301715.43863.bschmidt@techwires.net> In-Reply-To: <179b97fb0911291430n52f04136g49acb5ee6305a5aa@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B12E897.3090008@omnilan.de> <179b97fb0911291430n52f04136g49acb5ee6305a5aa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 29 November 2009 23:30:54 Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer > > <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de> wrote: > > Dear driver coders, > > > > my new notebook has the Intel WiFi Link 1000 chipset (0x8086, 0x0083). > > A quick look at intels developer sites doesn't answer if the chip is > > compatible with the precessor 5300/5100. > > Has anybody any experience with this wlan device? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Harry > > Bernhard Schmidt has a repository with a recent port of the OpenBSD > iwn(4) driver, available for testing, in an svn repo: > > http://svn.techwires.net/svn/projects/freebsd/sys > > It should provide support for the 1000 series chips, although neither > I or Bernhard have a card to test with. > > I'm testing the code on 8-STABLE... True, this bits are coming from the OpenBSD merge. Quoting from the commit: "- initial support for 1000 series and initial bits for upcoming 6000 series (untested as hardware is not available to the general public)" It looks as being complete though, feedback appreciated. -- Bernhard
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