Re: Installing wireless drivers on NetBSD 5.0.1?

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

Ignore: I hadn't seen the "Laptop Intel Wireless drivers?" thread yet...

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:17:51PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:29:24AM -0800, Stripes the Tiger Cub wrote:
> > The wireless card is either an Intel 5100 802.11abgn or Intel 5300
> > 802.11abgn. If there's no solution, I can go out and get a supported PCMCIA
> > card or USB network card today. I haven't taken away the option of "throwing
> > money (e.g. an external network card) at the problem."
> 
> I'm not sure about the dates, but it looks to me as though NetBSD 5.0.1
> appeared end of July 2009, but support for Intel 5100 appeared in the iwn
> driver mid September, so 5.0.1 might just not match the card.
> 
> Could you try a -current kernel, eg
> 
> http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201001190000Z/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-MONOLITHIC.gz
> 
> (or are you using amd64 or other?)