Acer Aspire AS5672 and Intel PRO/Wireless 3945abg

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:51:44 +0200
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a Acer Aspire AS5672WLMi laptop. Among other things, it has an
> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG inside.

Staus on the 3945 and the wpi driver has changed. There is a new wpi
driver (work in progress) at 
http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/wpi/

I compiled the driver on 
tingo at kg-home$ uname -a
FreeBSD kg-home.kg4.no 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Fri
Nov 10 23:09:04 CET 2006     root at k

and copied the modules (if_wpi.ko and wpi_ucode.ko) to /boot/modules.
After a 'kldload if_wpi' my wireless works:
tingo at kg-home$ ifconfig wpi0
wpi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 10.1.150.12 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.1.255.255
        ether 00:13:02:3e:d4:ce
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/6Mbps)
        status: associated
        ssid kg4 channel 1 bssid 00:0f:66:51:aa:41
        authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpowmax
100 bmiss 7 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL bintval 100

There is a caveat: the driver only works when aCPI is disabled. But
this goes for other network drivers (bge) on this laptop too. It
probably is related to a lousy BIOS / ACPI implementation on this
specific laptop.

More info about this laptop and FreeBSD on my web page
http://tingox.googlepages.com/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd

HTH
-- 
Regards, 
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway