Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-09-09 Thread Kevin Lo
That's because you are "a wireless guy" :-) On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:33:31PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Oh it is fun. :) > > +a > On Sep 8, 2014 10:54 PM, "Kevin Lo" wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > > > The problem -is- the money. The peo

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-09-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
Oh it is fun. :) +a On Sep 8, 2014 10:54 PM, "Kevin Lo" wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > The problem -is- the money. The people will come when there's enough > > interest and enough money. > > > > The problem is that people think things like wifi dri

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-09-08 Thread Kevin Lo
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > The problem -is- the money. The people will come when there's enough > interest and enough money. > > The problem is that people think things like wifi drivers that are > debugged, perform well and get updated as new standards appe

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:11:20, Adrian Chadd wrote: > The problem -is- the money. The people will come when there's enough > interest and enough money. > > The problem is that people think things like wifi drivers that are > debugged, perform well and get updated as new standards appear is a >

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-09-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
The problem -is- the money. The people will come when there's enough interest and enough money. The problem is that people think things like wifi drivers that are debugged, perform well and get updated as new standards appear is a few months effort - and I think the herculean efforts done in the p

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-09-01 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 04:17:28PM -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > > On 08/31/14 00:46, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > On 30 August 2014 12:57, wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:16:04PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >>> So yeah. Almost all of the work is done in the atheros driver side of > >>

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-31 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 08/31/14 00:46, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 30 August 2014 12:57, wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:16:04PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> So yeah. Almost all of the work is done in the atheros driver side of >>> things. Heck, the AR9271 bits for the HAL are likely just an evenings >>> worth

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, atar wrote: Here's additional place where FreeBSD has lack of support: USB based printers. Here's a citation from the FreeBSD handbook (page no. 251): USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial Bus, can run at even faster speeds than parallel or RS-232 serial interfac

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:40 PM, atar wrote: > Here's additional place where FreeBSD has lack of support: USB based > printers. > > Here's a citation from the FreeBSD handbook (page no. 251): Why don't you try citing a non-ancient version the handbook? Like here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/e

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-31 Thread atar
Here's additional place where FreeBSD has lack of support: USB based printers. Here's a citation from the FreeBSD handbook (page no. 251): > USB interfaces, named for the Universal Serial Bus, can run at even faster > speeds than parallel or RS-232 serial interfaces. Cables are simple and > che

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-31 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 30 August 2014 12:57, wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:16:04PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> So yeah. Almost all of the work is done in the atheros driver side of >> things. Heck, the AR9271 bits for the HAL are likely just an evenings >> worth of work for me. I just don't want to deal with

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, The main issue is this: I really don't like the USB driver stuff in the kernel. When I last checked, there was no clean example of a wifi or ethernet driver which handles all of the odd corner cases of things correctly. So you'd end up with things like taskqueues still running whilst the NIC

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-27 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:39:56AM +0300, atar wrote: > So you give me additional reason to stay with Linux and not to migrate > to FreeBSD since even a basic wireless adapter which came with your > Sony isn't supported by FreeBSD. To be honest, I don't know if your > Sony wireless adapter is suppo

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-27 Thread atar
So you give me additional reason to stay with Linux and not to migrate to FreeBSD since even a basic wireless adapter which came with your Sony isn't supported by FreeBSD. To be honest, I don't know if your Sony wireless adapter is supported by Linux, but in general, I think linux is more flexib

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-26 Thread sergio de Almeida Lenzi
I bought a TL-WN725N and a TL-WN723N the model WN725N is better, and smaller both from tplink and both works out of the box with FreeBSD 10 stable AMD64 I use them on a sony that have a wireless chip not recognizeable by FreeBSD. the only "catch" is to load the driver at boot (loader.conf) and ac

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-26 Thread atar
Maybe, but it has about above half of a year since I've saw this limitation in FreeBSD and this still wasn't fixed so I haven't too much hopes it will be fixed in the near future. > Well the page states "The AR7010 and AR9271 NICs are not yet supported - the > USB glue needs writing for ath(4).

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-26 Thread Miguel Clara
Well the page states "The AR7010 and AR9271 NICs are not yet supported - the USB glue needs writing for ath(4)." So it might happen :) Ofc only the maintainer can tell, and he was already done some many and great work on this. Melhores Cumprimentos // Best Regards --

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-26 Thread atar
Ok, I've understood the point. So probably there's no way to use this popular TP-LINK dongle with FreeBSD. Very alas. Disappointed. > On 26/08/2014 08:32, atar wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> According to what's written in the following URLs: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=41581 , > > h

Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-26 Thread Arthur Chance
On 26/08/2014 08:32, atar wrote: Hi there! According to what's written in the following URLs: > http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=41581 , > https://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/ath_hal(4)/HardwareSupport > (under the 'Chipsets I won't be working on' section) the > TL-WN722N TP-LINK wireless don

TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

2014-08-26 Thread atar
Hi there! According to what's written in the following URLs: http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=41581 , https://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/ath_hal(4)/HardwareSupport (under the 'Chipsets I won't be working on' section) the TL-WN722N TP-LINK wireless dongle isn't supported on freeBSD since it