Potential wireless project ideas

[Adrian Chadd]

hi!

If you can pull out bits from say the linux driver to update our drivers
then sure! Even if you don't succeed I bet you'll learn a lot!



-adrian


On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 12:45, lr x <lrx337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm a grad student taking an Operating Systems course this semester where I
> can officially work on something for FreeBSD for ~3 months! Do you think
> either of the following ideas would be good to have? (Plan to work ~15-20
> hours a week for 12-14 weeks)
>
> 1) Adding 802.11n support to the run(4) driver.
> For example, the ASUS USB N66[1] device.
> The run(4) man page states:
> "CAVEATS
>      The run driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities
> offered
>      by the RT2800, RT3000 and RT3900 chipsets."
>
> 2) Adding RTL8814AU support  to the rtwn(4) driver.
> Devices such as AWUS1900[2] (multiple antennas) and D-Link DWA-192[3] (ball
> shaped device) use this chipset.
>
> I'd appreciate your feedback on this so that I can decide what to do.
> If you have any other ideas that might be potentially more useful for
> FreeBSD, I'll be happy to consider them and talk to my professor about it.
>
> [1] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_USB-N66 and
> https://www.asus.com/Networking/USBN66/
> [2] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ALFA_Network_AWUS1900 and
> https://www.alfa.com.tw/service_1_detail/15.htm
> [3] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-192
>
> Thanks,
> Ashish Gupta
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