laptop Dell M4400 with -CURRENT?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, April 29, 2009 a las 03:17:59PM +0200, Carl Johan Gustavsson escribió:

> Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >
> >Yes, the configurator at dell.com let me select between:
> >
> >--EMEA Intel Pro Wireless WI-FI 5100 (802.11a/g/ Draft-n 1X2) MiniCard for 
> >Centrino 2 Label
> >--EMEA Intel Pro Wireless 5300 (802.11a/g/ Draft-n 3x3) MiniCard for 
> >Centrino 2 Label
> >--EMEA Dell Wireless 1510 (802.11a/b/g/n 2X3) MiniCard for Core 2 Duo Label
> >
> >are the two Intel cards supported? and by which module? thx
> >
> >	matthias
> The two Intel cards are not supported at the moment but I have  seen 
> that there are some work in progress on them (OpenBSD have a driver for 
> them). The Dell branded card has a Broadcom chipset it seems, 
> (bcm94312hmg) and thats not supported either AFAIK.
> 
> One option is to order it without WiFi and put in some Atheros card 
> yourself (which I did).
> 
>    Carl

Just to close this thread: I've ordered an Atheros Wifi smallPCI card as
well, inserted it into the laptop into the empty WWAN slot (btw: Dell's
HTML and picture documentation about how to
open the box and do replacements is *very* good); the biggest issue was
to connect the two micro antenna plugs onto the card;

but after this all is fine now:

$ dmesg | fgrep ath
ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xf1ff0000-0xf1ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci11
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0

$ ifconfig ath0
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:22:43:29:22:cd
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
$ ifconfig wlan0

wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:22:43:29:22:cd
        inet 10.0.1.222 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/18Mbps mode 11g
        status: associated
        ssid XXXXXXXXXX channel 7 (2442 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:04:e2:a1:76:0b
        regdomain 96 indoor ecm authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
        TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
        bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst
        roaming MANUAL

Carl, thanks again for your hint.

	matthias
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