Re: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017

2017-03-19 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
Hi, I've just spoke to ivadasz from DragonFly BSD. He answered a lot of my questions. I've put some notes on my Wiki [1]. On 5 March 2017 at 03:01, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Ok! So there's already a driver, iwm, and hopefully slowly it'll grow > 11n and 11ac support. Right now it just supports 11a

Re: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017

2017-03-05 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
Hi! On 5 March 2017 at 03:01, Adrian Chadd wrote: > hi! > > Ok! So there's already a driver, iwm, and hopefully slowly it'll grow > 11n and 11ac support. Right now it just supports 11a and 11bg. I'm > updating our driver to sync with dragonflybsd and hopefully that'll > pull in intel 3160 suppor

Re: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017

2017-03-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
hi! Ok! So there's already a driver, iwm, and hopefully slowly it'll grow 11n and 11ac support. Right now it just supports 11a and 11bg. I'm updating our driver to sync with dragonflybsd and hopefully that'll pull in intel 3160 support if it's not already working! The good news here though is you

Re: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017

2017-03-04 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
Hi, I'm not quite sure where should I look for the information. I'm on Linux at the moment and here's the output of several commands: `lshw -class network`: description: Wireless interface product: Wireless 3160 vendor: Intel Corporation ... capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bu

Re: Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017

2017-03-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
hiya! Which chipset is it! porting a driver is a big task, but it all depends on what it is! -adrian On 4 March 2017 at 17:17, Mateusz Piotrowski <0...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, I've tried installing FreeBSD on Lenovo Yoga 3 14. It turned out > that > its wireless device (which

Doing 802.11ac drivers for GSoC 2017

2017-03-04 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
Hi, Recently, I've tried installing FreeBSD on Lenovo Yoga 3 14. It turned out that its wireless device (which uses 802.11ac) support is not there yet according to [1] and [2]. Additionally, Adrian@'s presentation from BSDCan 2012 [3] says "802.11ac support? .. it's rapidly approaching, it should