I am the author of the 4965 driver, the following is the heads-up I can give now:
The Phase-I prototype of the 4965 driver is ready and the only thing need to do before the driver can be posted on opensolaris is the legal review. Now we are in the process of legal review, so I think the driver will be available soon. For the phase-I prototype, only B/G is supported. For N, it was planed to be supported in phase-II. For A, I think it should be supported in phase-I. Since I have no 802.11a AP, so I am not sure whether A is supported in phase-I. Even A didn't work, I think not so much effort is needed to make A work. Thanks, Brian James Cornell wrote: > I heard that IWL 4965 is supported as B/G on OpenSolaris. There's no > news on future N support, it's not as much of a priority as B/G. I > myself use N with WPA2, and have Atheros hardware with N support, but > again, N isn't supported with any card on OpenSolaris, so I have > setup a dual mode AP with support for G by having it run n the 2.4GHz > spectrum. For my older 802.11B equipment, it won't work in an N > environment, the signals clash and association cannot be done. > Wireless support varies widely, and the driver teams have priorities > on certain cards over others, with Intel at the top, followed by > Atheros, then by NDIS, etc. My Atheros card supports A/B/G/N, and > has barely partial support in OpenSolaris it's so new. (5400 > series) You should see Intel N before Atheros even though Atheros in > the market has sold draft-N hardware a little longer. See wireless > routers with N for proof, almost all of them use Atheros. Something > along the line of Super-G but N features, such as D-Link DI-624 which > works best with Atheros clients as they can use the acceleration. > Performance with draft-N Belkin cards versus Atheros is not so good, > and there's not many other vendors besides Intel in the N game right > now. This is probably a good thing though. As for A, it's a > different spectrum, as N can be as well, this is even less a priority > than A as N mops the floor with A in speed and range, while retaining > compatibility when needed. > > James > On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:48 AM, Jason Thomas wrote: > > >> Hi there, >> >> Is there any further news on adding wifi support for Intel 4965AGN >> chipsets? timelines etc.. >> >> Much thanks. >> >> rgds, >> J >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
