intel 2100 wireless on thinkpads

Thomas Repantis "trep.againstspammers." at cs.ucr.edu
Wed Mar 10 18:48:26 PST 2004


On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:33:18PM -0500, David Coder wrote:

> 1.  there appears to be no freebsd driver in any release for the intel wireless
> lan 2100 3b mini pci adapter.

I think it is supported in 5.2 through ndis, somebody else please confirm it.

> 2.  the intel gigabit chip that the t40 appears to work with the em driver (in
> my frustrating experience, anyway) only in 4.8 & 4.9, and then only with some
> coaxing, whereas no amount of tweaking seems to help with 5.x.

To be able to use the em0 driver for Intel's GigaBit Ethernet card, put this 
parameter in /boot/loader.conf:
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"

It works for me in 5.1-RELEASE.
For more:  http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~trep/tsrT40freebsd.html

Thomas
-- 
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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