Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:24:06 +0100 From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Intel WiFi 5100/5300 Message-ID: <200910251024.06856.bschmidt@techwires.net> In-Reply-To: <11167f520910241241o6a1ada3cmf076add6374a1add@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091009170839.142800@gmx.net> <3F27A279-6347-456B-A9B6-7CE847DD1A49@gmail.com> <11167f520910241241o6a1ada3cmf076add6374a1add@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 24 October 2009 21:41:39 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > Just wanted to make everyone aware that OpenBSD just 1 hour ago commited > a bunch of changes to their iwn driver. maybe some of it is useful for > FreeBSD as well? > > Log message: > huge diff introducing many of the recent changes made by intel to iwlwifi: > - ICT interrupts for >=5000 series (avoids reading IWN_INT which is slow) > - support v2 firmware header (including build number) > - switch to v2 firmware api (requires a firmware package upgrade) > - initial support for 1000 series and initial bits for upcoming 6000 > series (untested as hardware is not available to the general public) > - many bug fixes, including workarounds for hardware bugs > > make sure to update your iwn-firmware package to iwn-firmware-5.2. Definitely, I'll look into that. -- Bernhard
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