Re: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE driver support on Thinkpad T500
Warren Block <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, William Bulley wrote: > My T500 has Intel 5300 (AGN) wifi hardware on-board, but it is not > detected by any of the FreeBSD wireless device drivers I found in > the GENERIC kernel. I have rebuilt my kernel with all the wireless > device drivers listed in the GENERIC kernel and am running 7.2-STABLE. > > Would it do any good to upgrade to 8.0-STABLE, or am I out of luck > with this particular piece of wireless hardware? If so, I am hoping > that Lenovo designed the T500 with a removable wifi module so that I > might (possibly) replace it with one supported by the ath(4) driver. The wireless card in that system is an ordinary mini-PCI-e: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-71353 Be aware that IBM used to have a system BIOS that only allowed certain approved wireless cards. I don't know if that's still the case. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"