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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:04:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Leonardo_M=2E_Ram=E9?= <martinrame@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel 5100 agn driver
Message-ID:  <812534.46933.qm@web35602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ad871310908171050k21105075u872ea9cf46c02fbe@mail.gmail.com>

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Thanks Glen, I also can build the module with ndisgen, and it doesn't panic=
, but when I do ifconfig I can't see the ndis0 device.=20

However, I found this post on a Linux forum saying they can use the device.=
 I wonder if freebsd can load linux drivers using linuxsulator?.

Leonardo M. Ram=E9
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com


--- On Mon, 8/17/09, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Intel 5100 agn driver
> To: "Leonardo M. Ram=E9" <martinrame@yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 2:50 PM
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:57 AM,
> Leonardo M. Ram=E9<martinrame@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi, does anyone knows if the driver for the Intel 5100
> agn included in many new notebooks is ready to use in
> 7.2-STABLE for amd64?, if not, at least i'm looking for some
> pointers to creating a ndis wrapper for its WinXP driver.
> >
>=20
> Hi, Leonardo
>=20
> I'm in the same situation you are in.=A0 Regarding an
> official driver,
> there is not anything available (yet).=A0 The last post
> I saw in the
> -net archives mentions the driver was not currently being
> worked on (I
> do not know how much truth this holds now).
>=20
> Regarding ndis/ndisgen, I was able to create a module in
> 7.2-RELEASE
> and 8.0-BETA2, however both caused panics (which I was
> unable to get
> cores on - mostly because of time constraints).=A0 As
> expected, your
> results may vary.
>=20
> --=20
> Glen Barber
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