Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-10-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:50:02 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Networking wasn't an issue for me for years, but now, sitting on a pile of neat new hardware of which Fr

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-10-19 Thread Adrian Chadd
:( We are working on the 7260 driver support in our spare time. But, it's a spare time thing. It'll happen when it happens. If this is important to you (and it sounds like it is!) then please: * write a nicely worded email to the freebsd foundation, telling them how much you like freebsd and how

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-10-19 Thread O. Hartmann
Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:50:02 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block schrieb: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Networking wasn't an issue for me for years, but now, sitting on a pile of > >> neat new > >> hardware of which FreeBSD can not make any se

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, It's not a high priority in FreeBSD. It's just "highly desired." There's a difference. Someone paid someone to do a 7260 driver for OpenBSD. It'll work, like iwn worked, but it's missing a lot of the 11n and 11ac bits that are going to be crucial to do 11ac stack bring-up on FreeBSD. So, if

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Networking wasn't an issue for me for years, but now, sitting on a pile of neat new hardware of which FreeBSD can not make any serious use, let me rethink. Luckily, The Lenovo laptops have a mini PCIe WiFi NIC -

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:44:19 -0700 > Kevin Oberman schrieb: > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Nathan Whitehorn > > wrote: > > > > > On 09/27/14 23:06, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > > >> Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200 > > >> Lars Engels schrieb:

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
Grr... Not RSU, but RCU. And found these threads in -arch ML. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-June/015413.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-June/015419.html On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:45:23 +0900 Tomoaki AOKI wrote: > These should be good job for

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Am Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:44:19 -0700 Kevin Oberman schrieb: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Nathan Whitehorn > wrote: > > > > > On 09/27/14 23:06, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > >> Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200 > >> Lars Engels schrieb: > >> > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O.

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
These should be good job for The FreeBSD FOUNDATION, like former Diablo JDK/JRE case. At least, as far as I remember, adrian@ noted a patent issue (RSU) in porting Intel 7260AC.[1] If I remember correctly, there was anothe thread in another ML, but currently I missed it. Maybe -arch ML? In these

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Am Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:44:19 -0700 Kevin Oberman schrieb: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Nathan Whitehorn > wrote: > > > > > On 09/27/14 23:06, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > >> Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200 > >> Lars Engels schrieb: > >> > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O.

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > On 09/27/14 23:06, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200 >> Lars Engels schrieb: >> >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: >>> I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe a

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/27/14 23:06, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200 Lars Engels schrieb: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want to replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor. Since I made very ba

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200 Lars Engels schrieb: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want > > to > > replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor. > > > > Since I made very bad experiences w

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want > to replace it > with an 802.11ac adaptor. > > Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest modern > hardware > (Haswell CPU/Inte

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Am Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:41:56 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block schrieb: > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want > > to > > replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor. > > > > Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT a

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want to replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor. Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest modern hardware (Haswell CPU/Intel 7260 DualBand WiFi NIC), I'd li

WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread O. Hartmann
I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want to replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor. Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest modern hardware (Haswell CPU/Intel 7260 DualBand WiFi NIC), I'd like to ask here first. I found this PCIe ad