Hi Gavin,
Gavin Atkinson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 18:48 +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:32 -0600, Dan Allen wrote:
On 4 Sep 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
This is supported by the iwn(4) driver in CURRENT, and it should be
quite easy to port the driver to 7-STABLE. If you're interested in
reinstalling FreeBSD and testing a backported driver, I'm sure this
can be sorted.
I am interested in doing this. Please advise on how I can get these
bits.
I've got hold of a laptop with the 4965 chipset in it, if nobody beats
me to it I'll have a go at backporting the driver.
OK, I've backported the iwn(4) driver for the Intel 4965 wireless
chipset to 7-STABLE.
You need both of:
http://people.freebsd.org/~gavin/iwn-7/iwn-7.tgz
Loading if_iwn.ko make a nice reboot on my laptop.
No messages just a reset... FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #29: Tue Jul 29 16:13:47
EEST 2008 i386
May be I should try with more recent -stable ?
http://people.freebsd.org/~gavin/iwn-7/iwn-7.diff
Both are relative to /usr and are against 7-STABLE (although may well
apply to 7.0-RELEASE cleanly).
Please note that there are a couple of issues with this driver that
aren't seen with the driver in -HEAD. Firstly, it only supports B/G
channels, it doesn't work with 802.11a. Apparently this is due to a
firmware issue which the driver in -HEAD works around, although I don't
know how yet.
Secondly, there may be a slight issue with regulatory domains. I'm not
certain about this, but I was seeing issues while trying to associate to
an access point on channel 13g, changing the AP to channel 1g fixes
things.
Even with those two caveats, I can say that so far in my testing it's
been working very well. However, even if the driver works for you, I'm
pretty sure it's too late for a merge before 7.1.
Lastly, as the laptop is on loan to me and I'm going to have to give it
back soon, I don't know if I'll have a chance to do any further work on
this driver. I'm still interested in stories of success or otherwise.
Thanks,
Gavin
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Stefan Lambrev
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