Hi, Yes, the T61 is a great machine, everything works of the box with both FreeBSD and OpenBSD, although with OpenBSD requires firmware download. Still, I want to try NetBSD.
I beleive some T61 laptops came with a different wireless card, namely: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965, which may work out of the box. Can you please confirm you had the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card? Thanks. Béla. On 11/05/2013 23:36, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > Hi, > > > > > On 5 November 2013 22:11, Béla <bela.nam....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello fellow NetBSD users, >> >> I have dabbled with NetBSD in VirtualBox for some time now and today I >> decided to install NetBSD-amd64 version 6.1.2 on my Thinkpad T61 laptop. >> The T61 comes with the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wireless card - or >> wpi, NetBSD seems to have the appropriate driver for it, and necessary >> firmware is also made available(I used the wpi-firmware2-2.14.4 binary >> package from pkgsrc). But, whenever I bring the interface up(ifconfig >> wpi0 up), I get this error: >> >> wpi0: fatal firmware error >> >> I also tried the old firmware wpi-firmware-1.13, with no more success; I >> get the same error. >> > > > I used to have a T61p (now, sadly, the NVidia graphics card saw the > best of it). I've never done anything to download firmware to this one > - it just works out of the box (i.e. after clean -current installation > from CD, configuring wpa_supplicant and enabling dhcpcd). The wireless > card in it is identical to yours. It has been extremely reliable > (well, I've never lost connection to my home router and to some may be > 10 others I've connected it). Obviously I haven't tried 6.1.2 (when > that was out, the laptop was already dead). > >> Any ideas how to make this wireless card work? >> Does anybody run NetBSD with this wifi card? >> >> BTW, I have not configured dhcpd/dhclient or wpa_supplicant yet; I see >> no reason to, first I need to get the firmware working. > > I've never tried to manually configure the card (or any other > wireless, for that matter). I just configure wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd > (earlier dhclient) and it just works. Although I run -current usually. > > Chavdar >
