Intel 5100 AGN WiFi

Ghirai ghirai at ghirai.com
Wed Jan 21 08:57:57 PST 2009


On Wednesday 21 January 2009 12:41:23 Da Rock wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:48 +0200, Ghirai wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After a quick search it appears that Intel 5100 AGN wifi card is not
> > supported (at least not in RELEASE?).
> > If so, are there plans, dev. in progress, etc?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> AFAIK this uses the iwn driver which a group of us is now working on.
> Backports (testing) exist for 7.1, and there are several references to
> them on this list. Use the latest, and post back here with your results
> which will help us further the task (/var/log/messages, dmesg, etc).
>
> Just to check that this is the driver you need, run a pciconf -lv and
> post the result back here.
>

I was shopping for a notebook that has this card, and wanted to make sure.
I'll post info if i buy it.

Thanks.


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