Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

These should be good job for The FreeBSD FOUNDATION, like former Diablo
JDK/JRE case.

At least, as far as I remember, adrian_at_ noted a patent issue (RSU) in
porting Intel 7260AC.[1]
If I remember correctly, there was anothe thread in another ML, but
currently I missed it. Maybe -arch ML?

In these cases, The FreeBSD FOUNDATION would be good legal body for
licence contracts / agreements with patent holder(s).


[1]
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2014-June/004748.html


On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:20:53 -0700
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On 09/27/14 23:06, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200
> > Lars Engels <lars.engels_at_0x20.net> schrieb:
> >
> >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >>> I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want to
> >>> replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor.
> >>>
> >>> Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest modern hardware
> >>> (Haswell CPU/Intel  7260 DualBand WiFi NIC), I'd like to ask here first.
> >>>
> >>> I found this PCIe adaptor card attractive:
> >>>
> >>> GigaByte Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I
> >>>
> >>> I can not find ad hoc the WLAN chip used on that specific card, but maybe someone has
> >>> experiences with that litte board.
> >> FreeBSD doensn't support 802.11ac, yet.
> > I'm bitter aware of that. This OS doesn't support the chipsets, even if they provide also
> > 11a/g/n.
> >
> > We have at our department now a bunch of Lenovo hardware, with Intels 7260 chipset. The
> > laptops are now runninmg Ubuntu 14.0X something which obviously supports the WiFi chip.
> > I'm the last man standing with FreeBSD on my private Lenovo :-(
> 
> This is a serious problem. I'm about ready to install Linux on my laptop 
> as well just to get a usable system. Some kind of funding directed to a 
> willing developer would be hugely valuable for the usability of the 
> operating system on recent hardware. This is probably more important 
> even than Haswell graphics since without a driver, Haswell is merely 
> slow, whereas networking is completely broken.
> -Nathan
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