Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN Supported on FreeBSD-8.0?

Leslie Jensen leslie at eskk.nu
Tue Apr 13 06:49:37 UTC 2010



On 2010-04-13 01:44, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, cassetti77<adriano.dema at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>> Excuse me. I have a sony vaio vgn-nw21mf too. I read your conversation, but
>> i have not undertand what i do to configure my intel wifi 5100 agn. I don't
>> know nothing about MFCED (google do not help me in that case ) .
>
>
> For FreeBSD, it means merged from current.  Google will help you with that.
> You may also want to use www.google.com/bsd
>
>
>> I download
>> the Freebsd 8-release and i don't know to download a 8-stable.  Can you
>> please say me what i do ? Thank you in every case .... and sorry for my
>> english!!
>>
>
> You would need to update your system from the release branch to the stable
> branch.  Basically you need to cvsup sources from STABLE, build world and
> kernel then install them.  That part is covered well in the handbook.
>
>
>
I'm currently using the iwn driver on my 8.0-REL system.

You can follow the instructions here:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8041

Be sure to read the whole tread!

/Leslie








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