THere are a bunch of supported 11n NICS in -HEAD and -10. You should buy a cheap one for now, until someone writes the AR7010/AR9271 driver.
-adrian On 19 November 2013 14:53, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > from Jonas Liepuonius <[email protected]>: > >> So I have been thinking about starting driver development in FreeBSD. So I >> thought about porting some drivers from linux as a starting point. It will >> mainly be for the Atheros 9271 USB chip. So any comments or ideas or tips >> are welcome :) > >> -- >> Pagarbiai, >> Jonas > > I have MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard with onboard AR9271 quasi-USB chip and > would be glad to be a tester on FreeBSD-current. > > Bug in re driver makes this particular version of Realtek 8111E Ethernet not > work in FreeBSD or OpenBSD as of 5.3, but good in NetBSD-current amd64 and > Linux. > > I notice NetBSD and OpenBSD have athn driver which includes AR9271. > > On how I update FreeBSD source tree with no Internet access through FreeBSD, > I built subversion from pkgsrc on a NetBSD-current amd64 USB-stick > installation, and use that successfully. With GPT, NetBSD accesses FreeBSD > partition with no problem reading disklabels. > > OpenBSD, from live USB (http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/), can't read > my hard drive at all, due to lack of GPT support. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
