That would be great! What geographical area are you located in? We can investigate getting you a 4965 card.
-Geeta >-----Original Message----- >From: laptop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:laptop-discuss- >bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Garrett D'Amore >Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:26 AM >To: brian.xu >Cc: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org; Jason Thomas >Subject: Re: [laptop-discuss] WIFI 4965AGN > >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 >>>> >>>> >>>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> laptop-discuss mailing list >>> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> laptop-discuss mailing list >> laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > >_______________________________________________ >laptop-discuss mailing list >laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
