Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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 >> > I have 802.11n in my home and can set the router in A or pure N if I need to, and I have an Atheros AR54xx series. I can do testing for N just tell me when it's ready for me to test.
James
