{"id":85,"date":"2008-11-08T10:51:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T01:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-11-18T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T03:16:18","slug":"iwn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/posts\/iwn","title":{"rendered":"iwn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid #ffcc33; width: 50%; margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%; text-align: center; background-color: #ffff99;\">\n<p><strong>Last Updated:<\/strong> 20080521054508<\/div>\n<p>This page documents the current state of the IWN driver for <a title=\"FreeBSD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/categories\/computer\/freebsd\">FreeBSD<\/a>, the driver supports the Intel 4965AGN Wireless Card, often found in Intel Centrino based laptops. <em>If your looking for the driver for the 3945 chipset check out the <a title=\"Wpi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/posts\/wpi\">wpi<\/a> page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Note: A majorly updated version of the iwn driver has been committed to FreeBSD -Current (aka 8.0). This version is greatly advanced over the perforce version. If you intend to try the perforce version under 7.0 please make sure you are running 7.0-STABLE not 7.0-RELEASE<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An up to date commentary on what I&#8217;m working on can often be found in my <a title=\"Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a> and this is a <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/\">wiki<\/a> page so you can check the page history for what has changed<\/p>\n<p>Details on how to help debug the driver are in README file that&#8217;s in the download package.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you wanting to try the perforce version of the driver, the script <a title=\"P4fetch.rb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/~benjsc\/downloads\/FreeBSD\/P4fetch.rb\">P4fetch.rb<\/a> will help you easily obtain the files. The script was provided by Tom Evans.<\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> History <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Iwn Committed to FreeBSD -Current (aka 8.0)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Perforce Version (Not yet tarballed &#8211; available <a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/perforce.freebsd.org\/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=\/\/depot\/user\/benjsc\/iwn\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/perforce.freebsd.org\/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=\/\/depot\/user\/benjsc\/iwn\">here<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li> Initial OpenBSD Import<\/li>\n<li> Many locking additions<\/li>\n<li> Lots of changes to get things working. At present, the card will talk with an unencrypted access point, pass packets but stops passing packets after a while.<\/li>\n<li> Major overhaul by Sam Leffler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Perforce (VAP Branch)\n<ul>\n<li> Major changes to support vap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Installation\/Testing Instructions <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>At present installation of the driver is very much hands on.<\/p>\n<p>To install the driver:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Download from p4 using the scribe above<\/li>\n<li> Read the README file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> FAQ \/ Build Issues <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> No common FAQ&#8217;s as yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span class=\"mw-headline\"> Outstanding issues <\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li> Background scanning doesn&#8217;t yet exist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated: 20080521054508 This page documents the current state of the IWN driver for FreeBSD, the driver supports the Intel 4965AGN Wireless Card, often found in Intel Centrino based laptops. 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