Re: Intel WiFi 5100/5300

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel@xxxxxx> wrote:
Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-10-14:
Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
On Friday 09 October 2009 19:08:39 Lutz Bichler wrote:
does anybody know what happened to the attempts to support
Intel WiFi 5100/5300 interfaces in the iwn-driver? Are any
patches available which could be used to start working on
support for these interfaces?

I'm curious too, as I'm playing with idea to start porting
the latest changes to if_iwn from OpenBSD. Already started
with adding the 5000 series firmware to iwnfw...

Most recent effort to port Intel 5100 support that I'm aware of
was done by Daniel Roethlisberger (cc'd). He has the work
kicking around in a private svn repo. No idea what state it's
in though.

I haven't had a chance to work on this for some time.  A bunch of
other folks are interested and/or working on it.  I've added two
of the most recently active ones to the Cc: list.

The code in my svn repo [1] is not up to date with all the 802.11
changes in -current.  Status is still that scanning works, but
associating (tx actually) fails with a firmware exception.
Brandon has made some progress on why this is happening, but no
real fix yet I think.

[1] https://svn.roe.ch/iwn/trunk

--
Daniel Roethlisberger
http://daniel.roe.ch/


Hi everyone. Yes, it's true that I've found SOMETHING, although I'm
still investigating why that something is happening in the first
place. I'm having to work on it in between "real life", so that means
I need the working, current driver in tree most of the time. I have a
5300 in another computer I'm planning on hacking around on in the near
future so I can have both a 4965 and 5000 series test environment.

Right now, I'm reading through these:

man -k ieee80211

...and friends.

I don't know much about the technology, so I decided to start over
from the beginning, making this whole "iwn driver update" more of a
"learn FreeBSD's IEEE802.11 layer" thing (a long-term project).

So, yeah, I'll share more as I get it :)

-Brandon
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