From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 14:21:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88CC106566C for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 14:21:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992808FC1C for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 14:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws12 with SMTP id 12so2830086vws.13 for ; Sat, 29 May 2010 07:20:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QxevwWMPvigfS7QSD+IMl55hupThVMUPmvoaTEBRoA8=; b=A3199Sxz7FNgsnjRzZZo/urypmKLd2eYZuGmSpTbm8I1TOeadIJrBsrKGUEAqEQpuo L0WLumITQVS4AEQld06ft4JG/hA+FWmfuUBw134xUrCtMDu4DN/V+PKBp3/hNtLQxKIN ZeNhG788JwplPbUxCU25yNLHmRkIt4yCHUJl8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oabYPBbxFox+5WskZGxaesLNjDoBDLK1JV5DrWU6m/v/bbRi/LtP2cEsHoeSWWunVx RC1c+dIfDh2kne0mWGpjRbBPcQrbjIs/+rg3tw3ufinNfzah9HcN/OaFKq2ZIX04eoBx Jv49eByNXFcPt2xhOn/x4TeopBsLzY3KyUqE4= Received: by 10.220.47.220 with SMTP id o28mr1290995vcf.146.1275141228662; Sat, 29 May 2010 06:53:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from n2-150-149.dhcp.drexel.edu (n2-150-149.dhcp.drexel.edu [144.118.150.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i29sm14841411vcr.12.2010.05.29.06.53.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 29 May 2010 06:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C011C69.6020100@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 09:53:45 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex References: <20100528131038.41a41645@gmail.com> <4C011BD5.5010605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C011BD5.5010605@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 5300AGN X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 14:21:01 -0000 On 5/29/10 9:51 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/28/10 1:10 PM, Alex wrote: >> Hi. I am about to purchase an Intel 5300AGN. Is it compatible with >> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE amd64? >> >> Thank you. >> > > You would have better luck with 8.1-PRERELEASE, as the iwn(4) driver was > ported to 8-STABLE after -RELEASE was already out. > > Regards, > Just to clarify, 5100/5300AGN support was added to iwn(4) after -RELEASE was out; the driver already existed for previous chipsets. Regards, -- Glen Barber