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Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card



> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 at 3:10 PM
> From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
> To: "Stephen Borrill" <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>, "Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>
> Cc: netbsd-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card
>
[...]
> | 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.

Your clarifications well explained the problem. Before writing here, I tried in any way to update the BIOS, but it seems that no newer versions are available for my laptop model (while other models may be updated instead).
Nevermind and anyway thank you.

Rocky


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