Re: Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN Supported on FreeBSD-8.0?

[Jan Henrik Sylvester]

On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, S Roberts wrote:
> The wireless nic on my laptop is the Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN. Is this card supported in FreeBSD as present?

Support for that device got MFCed to 8-STABLE a short time after
8.0-RELEASE.

Cheers,
Jan Henrik

[cassetti77]

Stacey Roberts wrote:
>
> Hello Oliver,
> Thanks for the response.
>
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:35:27 +0200
> "O.Herold" <oli...@akephalos.de> wrote:
>
>> Am Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:22:46 +0100
>> schrieb S Roberts <sta...@vickiandstacey.com>:
>>
>> > Hello,

>> > The wireless nic on my laptop is the Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN.
>> > Is this card supported in FreeBSD as present?
>> >

>> > I checked the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes (at
>> > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html#WLAN), and I
>> > don't see the Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN actually listed.
>> >
>> > Looking at the online manpage for iwn, it is actually titled "Intel
>> > Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN IEEE 802.11n driver", but then again, I
>> > also noted that that manpage is timestamped April 13, 2008 and is
>> > tagged for FreeBSD-7.2.
>> >
>> > I'd some help, please.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > S Roberts
>> >
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>>
>> You have to use 8-stable, then you get support for this kind of
>> adapter.
>>
>
> Understood - install 8-REL, the cvsup to 8-Stable.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
>
> S Roberts
>
>> Cheers, Oliver
>
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Excuse me. I have a sony vaio vgn-nw21mf too. I read your conversation, but
i have not undertand what i do to configure my intel wifi 5100 agn. I don't
know nothing about MFCED (google do not help me in that case ) . I download
the Freebsd 8-release and i don't know to download a 8-stable. Can you
please say me what i do ? Thank you in every case .... and sorry for my
english!!
Best Regards
adriano

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[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, cassetti77 <adrian...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Excuse me. I have a sony vaio vgn-nw21mf too. I read your conversation, but
> i have not undertand what i do to configure my intel wifi 5100 agn. I don't
> know nothing about MFCED (google do not help me in that case ) .

For FreeBSD, it means merged from current. Google will help you with that.
You may also want to use www.google.com/bsd

> I download
> the Freebsd 8-release and i don't know to download a 8-stable. Can you
> please say me what i do ? Thank you in every case .... and sorry for my
> english!!
>

You would need to update your system from the release branch to the stable
branch. Basically you need to cvsup sources from STABLE, build world and
kernel then install them. That part is covered well in the handbook.

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