Intel WiFi 5100/5300

[Brandon Gooch]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Bernhard Schmidt
<bschmidt at techwires.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 October 2009 08:15:57 Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>> .. anyways, I'll post updates on  sunday.
>
> Here we go.
>
> http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/patches/freebsd/iwn/
>
> Testers/feedback welcome!
>
> Code is pretty stable although there are still a few open issues. Nothing
> major I should be able to figure them out.
>
> * I did only tests with a 5100 card, other might not yet work.. I will do
> tests wie 5300 and 4965 cards later this week.
> * 11N has not been tested at all.
> * Deauth/disconnect frames are not handled correctly, those yield firmware
> errors. The remote side might therefore not be able to clean up correctly,
> whichs lead to no answers to probe requests on new scans.
> * Encryption of any kind does not yet work.
> * Monitor mode/radiotap does not yet work.
> * IBSS mode has not been tested.
> * iwnfw module is locked somehow on kldunload.
> * RF kill switch might not work correctly.
> * Manpage needs an update. :)
> * Suspend/resume is broken.
>
> --
> Bernhard
>

Great job!

However, with my 4965, I get a page fault somewhere in
iwn4965_set_txpower when I load if_iwn.ko (I'm loading iwnfw.ko
manually before loading if_iwn.ko)

I'll see if I can gather a bit more info tomorrow.

-Brandon