Intel WiFi 5100/5300

Alireza Torabi alireza.torabi at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 17:12:05 UTC 2009


Many thanks for your work on this.
When do you think you'll have the ecryption support for iwn? (so
cheeky of me I know!)

Alireza

On 10/18/09, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 08:15:57 Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>> .. anyways, I'll post updates on  sunday.
>
> Here we go.
>
> http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/patches/freebsd/iwn/
>
> Testers/feedback welcome!
>
> Code is pretty stable although there are still a few open issues. Nothing
> major I should be able to figure them out.
>
> * I did only tests with a 5100 card, other might not yet work.. I will do
> tests wie 5300 and 4965 cards later this week.
> * 11N has not been tested at all.
> * Deauth/disconnect frames are not handled correctly, those yield firmware
> errors. The remote side might therefore not be able to clean up correctly,
> whichs lead to no answers to probe requests on new scans.
> * Encryption of any kind does not yet work.
> * Monitor mode/radiotap does not yet work.
> * IBSS mode has not been tested.
> * iwnfw module is locked somehow on kldunload.
> * RF kill switch might not work correctly.
> * Manpage needs an update. :)
> * Suspend/resume is broken.
>
> --
> Bernhard
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