brian.xu wrote: > 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 >> > Must had been mistaken, although the one I heard about had N, so it's probably the 4965, I just jumped the gun and opened my mouth about the driver being finished. As I knew, only B/G is supported. As for A, I think one needs to consider how pervasive and advantageous N is over A, although you have an A AP. As long as it's not more than another 6mo, it's fine if it remains phase II, I can understand there is technical implications to adding support for it. Thanks for the heads up.
James
