Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros
AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I
ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to
ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The
kernel panics every time I load it.
I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but
the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver (
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)... Even
though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is not
picked up and it's definitely an AR5008.


- John

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wahjava...@gmail.com wrote:

 Saifi Khan writes:

 [...]

  Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
  with FreeBSD ?

 Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
 driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.

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 Ashish SHUKLA

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Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very
well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such
and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is.
-John

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Sam Leffler s...@freebsd.org wrote:

 5418 has worked for several years in HEAD.   At this point the only ath
 chips not working in HEAD are those I haven't had access to (9280 and 9285)
 and 9280 support should go in shortly.  About the only thing missing for ath
 is support for 11n (the 802.11 layer has supported 11n on other devices for
 several years and been used in various products).

 I can't comment on RELENG_7 support as I don't run it.

   Sam

 John Hendy wrote:

 For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros
 AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if
 I
 ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to
 ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run.
 The
 kernel panics every time I load it.
 I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but
 the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver (
 http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)...
 Even
 though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is
 not
 picked up and it's definitely an AR5008.


 - John

 On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wahjava...@gmail.com
 wrote:



 Saifi Khan writes:

 [...]



 Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
 with FreeBSD ?


 Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
 driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.

 --
 Ashish SHUKLA



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