Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:56:51 -1000 From: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> To: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE driver support on Thinkpad T500 Message-ID: <1265363811.1504.6.camel@slate01> In-Reply-To: <20100203154816.GA91140@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20100203154816.GA91140@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:48 -0500, William Bulley wrote: > My T500 has Intel 5300 (AGN) wifi hardware on-board, but it is not > detected by any of the FreeBSD wireless device drivers I found in > the GENERIC kernel. I have rebuilt my kernel with all the wireless > device drivers listed in the GENERIC kernel and am running 7.2-STABLE. > > Would it do any good to upgrade to 8.0-STABLE, or am I out of luck > with this particular piece of wireless hardware? If so, I am hoping > that Lenovo designed the T500 with a removable wifi module so that I > might (possibly) replace it with one supported by the ath(4) driver. > I just put 8.0-STABLE on my Fujitsu T1010 with Intel 5100 AGN and the iwn driver works perfectly. This what I put in /etc/rc.conf. (My home network is "Oz," I do not use encryption, and I restrict access by MAC address.) # iwn0 is built-in wifi wlans_iwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid=Oz" And here is output of ifconfig: $ ifconfig msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=11a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4> ether 00:17:42:f4:ec:37 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier iwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:16:ea:68:d5:dc media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:16:ea:68:d5:dc inet 10.0.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g status: associated ssid Oz channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1e:52:7a:36:af country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu osp@aloha.com http://openslate.net/ http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ Sent from Slate001
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