On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 07:53:44AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Frank Wille wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a recent Notebook which runs NetBSD. In spent a lot of time > > to find out which drivers are needed for several models, and in nearly all > > cases the WLAN chip is not supported. > > > > Looking into the NetBSD-current source I hope that the new intel AC 3160 > > driver is partly working. Would that be an option? > > > > Wireless LAN is always problematic, the devices change relatively > quickly and getting details to write drivers can be ridiculously > difficult. Even with the documents someone has to have the device, > motivation and time to do the job. > > One thing which may be acceptable (and, in fact, I have been doing for a > while*) is to get a supported USB wireless dongle and use that. It is > not ideal but you will get wireless network. > > * My laptop has an unsupported realtek wireless chip, I am part way > through the port of the driver but have not had the time to finish doing > it :( > > -- > Brett Lymn > Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.
I've removed the Broadcom wifi device inside my laptop and replaced it with a more reasonable manufacturer's card. not all laptops allow this, though, they may whitelist cards. But until that, I used USB wifi. the dongle is small enough to not get in the way, I don't even have to disconnect it to put ti in a backpack. Seems like much of the difficulty comes from the fact that there are regional variants for cards.
