Re: Any hope for 802.11ac on an Atheros chip?
- In reply to: Chris : "Any hope for 802.11ac on an Atheros chip?"
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:15:41 UTC
Drivers for newer WiFi cards have proved elusive, and I've heard of several failed attempts. It is not a great solution, and 64-bit x86 only, but this might be interesting: https://github.com/Netgate/musenki It is very early in development and isn't quite complete, but work is moving fast. I honestly don't have any performance numbers yet, but I know that it is functional. I know that this idea has been around for a while, I don't have links back to that work. You could use the basic ideas to establish a manually configured connection with any linux kernel that supports your wifi card. On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:05 AM Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote: > I recently got a laptop, and picked up an Atheros QCA6174 2x2 802.11ac > card for it. But after putting it in. FreeBSD-(13 && 13.1) doesn't even > know it's there. I was sure that they were supported, as it was reported > to be "close/almost finished" in the July-September 2020 Quarterly > report[1] > as well as a report by Adrian that "We know whats missing"[2] somewhat > later on the mailing list. > So where can I find it? :-) > > Thank you for all your time, and consideration. > > --Chris > > > 1. https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2020-07-2020-09.html > 2. https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org/msg06983.html -- Kailua, Hawaiʻi