FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE driver support on Thinkpad T500

[Gary Dunn]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:48 -0500, William Bulley wrote:
> My T500 has Intel 5300 (AGN) wifi hardware on-board, but it is not
> detected by any of the FreeBSD wireless device drivers I found in
> the GENERIC kernel.  I have rebuilt my kernel with all the wireless
> device drivers listed in the GENERIC kernel and am running 7.2-STABLE.
> 
> Would it do any good to upgrade to 8.0-STABLE, or am I out of luck
> with this particular piece of wireless hardware?  If so, I am hoping
> that Lenovo designed the T500 with a removable wifi module so that I
> might (possibly) replace it with one supported by the ath(4) driver.
> 

I just put 8.0-STABLE on my Fujitsu T1010 with Intel 5100 AGN and the
iwn driver works perfectly. This what I put in /etc/rc.conf. (My home
network is "Oz," I do not use encryption, and I restrict access by MAC
address.) 

# iwn0 is built-in wifi
wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid=Oz"

And here is output of ifconfig:

$ ifconfig
msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1500
	options=11a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4>
	ether 00:17:42:f4:ec:37
	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
	status: no carrier
iwn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
2290
	ether 00:16:ea:68:d5:dc
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
	status: associated
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1500
	ether 00:16:ea:68:d5:dc
	inet 10.0.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
	status: associated
	ssid Oz channel 3 (2422 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1e:52:7a:36:af
	country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 15 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60
	bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5
	protmode CTS wme



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