I have 802.11a in my home, so I can test that if you like. I need a
4965 card though. My laptop is a Toshiba Tecra M9, and it has a 3945 in
it right now, but that slot can also accommodate the 4965.
-- Garrett
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
>>>
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