On 01/01/13 20:47, Eitan Adler wrote:
On 1 January 2013 20:26, YongHyeon PYUN <pyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 12:29:29PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
Hey,
Are there any plans to support the AR8161/8165 chipset?
[ none2@pci… class=0x02000 card=0x397917aa chip=0x10911969 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 ]
This decision made QAC to overhaul Linux driver
(alx) to follow Linux's decision and their priority was to get a
stable Linux driver. It was long time ago and I don't know current
status.
:(
QAC already donated a couple of engineering samples so I guess it
wouldn't take a long time for me to write a driver for
AR816x/AR817x but I still have mixed feelings about writing a
driver at this moment.
Why the mixed feelings? The more hardware we support out of the box
the more likely it is that users will stick with FreeBSD.
If I could tell people that "yes, this laptop completely works with
FreeBSD" that would be awesome.
If I might jump in, I would love to tell people I know the same thing,
but I cannot because /my/ wifi card isn't supported (and, as I
understand it, mine is because the hw vendor apparently likes it like that).
I am finding FreeBSD to be great on a desktop/server, but I need to be
mobile with my laptop and not tied to an ethernet card or a ndist hack
that may or may not cause a kernel panic.
--
Yours in Christ,
Joseph A Nagy Jr
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is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1
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