iwn driver on 7.1

Da Rock rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au
Sun Jan 18 13:38:28 PST 2009


On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 14:17 -0600, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> I have a working driver for the Intel 4965, aka iwn(4), loaded on my
> Lenovo X300 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE (amd64).
> 
> This driver is a slightly-modified version of the iwn(4) driver
> backported from 8.0-CURRENT by Gavin Atkinson:
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=221758+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2008/freebsd-stable/20080928.freebsd-stable
> 
> I was seeing the same symptoms described in these threads (among others):
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045264.html
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1334322+1338147+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090118.freebsd-questions
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1418632+1421765+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20090118.freebsd-questions
> 
> ...so I debugged and modified Gavin's driver for my system.
> 
> The driver and the source tree diff can be downloaded here for any
> brave souls wanting to test it out:
> 
> http://sites.google.com/site/bsdgooch/files
> 
> I'm using the driver now to send this e-mail over a link to my TP-LINK
> TL-WR941ND access point (with WPA2). Feedback and bug reports would be
> useful.
> 
> -brandon

Sounds like you got to it before I did- thank god! :)

Question though: have you got it figured for a channels yet?

I'll test it for you and keep you updated with my results.



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