Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Feb 9,  1:16pm, netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost (Stephen Borrill) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card

| > Yes, the function ppbattach is much more "hinged" here than in NetBSD.
| > I would anyway suggest you to think about this issue, because Intel WiFi Link 5100 is a very common card and both OpenBSD, FreeBSD already support it.
| > Up to now, this makes such laptops useless with NetBSD (neither the Ethernet card, Marvell 88E8072, is supported). I gave up installing NetBSD here.
| > Thank you for your help,
| 
| Just to clarify, Intel WiFi Link 5100 (and later) cards are fully 
| supported. The issue here is that it cannot be talked to correct through 
| PCI on this particular machine.

And it is the BIOS in the machine that does not configure the ppb bridge
properly, so nothing that sits behind will work.

christos