Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread jT
Steve, A few Iwn drivers *are* supported, mine being iwn 4965 -- is supported and has been committed to 8.0-CURRENT. You can find more information about development on this hardware here : http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/iwn. I'm pretty sure that there is not that much work done on your

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Sam Leffler
jT wrote: Steve, A few Iwn drivers *are* supported, mine being iwn 4965 -- is supported and has been committed to 8.0-CURRENT. You can find more information about development on this hardware here : http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/iwn. I'm pretty sure that there is not that much work

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread jT
Sam, I know you are busy, but can you explain what about my response was wrong when you say doesn't require sysctl ack -- you mean acknowledgment? I just would like to know for my future reference and Steve sorry for my misinformation. iwn firmware does not require a sysctl ack. Sam

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Max Laier
On Monday 17 November 2008 05:27:48 jT wrote: I know you are busy, but can you explain what about my response was wrong when you say doesn't require sysctl ack -- you mean acknowledgment? I just would like to know for my future reference and Steve sorry for my misinformation. the firmware

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Sam Leffler
The 4965 firmware license does not require an ack via the loader tunable. This used to be true but was changed recently as I was mistaken about the license (only iwi and ipw firmware requires the end user acknowledge the EULA). Everything else that was said seemed spot on. Sam jT wrote:

Re: Intel 5100 WiFi

2008-11-16 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:19:49PM -0500, jT wrote: Yes it will require a firmware blob as the 4965 one does. You are required to take notice to the legal aspects of the blob via setting a key in loader.conf. The firmware blob here is simply a large binary file that is loaded directly into