is there a laptop ?

[John Hendy]

For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros
AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I
ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to
ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The
kernel panics every time I load it.
I'm using FBSD-7.1-amd64, so I can't speak of the capabilities of 8.0, but
the hardware notes do not seem to have changed re the ath driver (
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html#WLAN)... Even
though it only states that AR5005VL chips are unsupported, mine still is not
picked up and it's definitely an AR5008.


- John

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saifi Khan writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work
> > with FreeBSD ?
>
> Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the
> driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets.
>
> --
> Ashish SHUKLA
>