Oops! (was: Support for Intel 5100 WiFi ?)

[Fabian Keil]

"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> After the kldload, I got message showing me the various data rates
> available for 801.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g... up to 54Mbps on that
> last one, of course.
> 
> However as I understand it, the Intel 5100 chip is also capable of
> 802.11n, and furthermore and additionally, it is allegedly dual-band,
> having the capability to operate in either the 2.4GHz range or in the
> 5Ghz range.

Maybe the 11n rates are behind boot_verbose (which I have enabled),
but at least on CURRENT they are included in the system messages:

fk at r500 ~ $dmesg | grep iwn0:
iwn0: <Intel WiFi Link 5100> mem 0xf4300000-0xf4301fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
iwn0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported)
iwn0: using IRQ 257 for MSI
iwn0: MIMO 1T2R, MoW, address 00:1e:65:25:5d:3a
iwn0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
iwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
iwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
iwn0: 1T2R
iwn0: 11na MCS 20MHz
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 6.5Mbps - 65Mbps
iwn0: 11na MCS 20MHz SGI
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 7Mbps - 72Mbps
iwn0: 11na MCS 40MHz:
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 13.5Mbps - 135Mbps
iwn0: 11na MCS 40MHz SGI:
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 15Mbps - 150Mbps
iwn0: 11ng MCS 20MHz
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 6.5Mbps - 65Mbps
iwn0: 11ng MCS 20MHz SGI
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 7Mbps - 72Mbps
iwn0: 11ng MCS 40MHz:
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 13.5Mbps - 135Mbps
iwn0: 11ng MCS 40MHz SGI:
iwn0: MCS 0-7: 15Mbps - 150Mbps

Fabian
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