On 9 Sep 2010, at 14:45, John Nielsen wrote: > On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > >> On 7 Sep 2010, at 19:41, John Nielsen wrote: >> >>> I am working on a network scenario which would benefit greatly from the >>> MIMO features and higher bandwidth of 802.11n. It's my understanding that >>> 11n is not fully supported in FreeBSD since there is no appropriate rate >>> control algorithm in the tree. Is that still the case? >> >> I've worked on supporting 11n on ath_rate_sample but it's incomplete. >> >>> >>> I would _really_ like to run FreeBSD for this project, and I believe the >>> Atheros wireless cards I plan to use are supported by ath(4). I'd like to >>> find out what else needs to happen to complete the picture. I may even go >>> so far as to write some code myself. :) >>> >>> Is anyone working on this at the moment? >> >> Not really, I did some work in the past, but it's incomplete. >> >>> >>> Is it just the rate control that needs to be done or are there other parts >>> involved? Is MIMO separate? >> >> We have MIMO on some non-Atheros drivers, but one of these drivers (Ralink >> 11n) is not yet in the tree. > > That would be interesting to look at. Is the code somewhere publicly > available? Is it slated to hit the tree soon?
There's a git repo somewhere on the net; can't remember where. This information should be in the FreeBSD forums. The driver is for the rt2860. > >>> Is there a detailed description of the missing pieces somewhere? Or a >>> not-very-detailed summary of where to look and what to read to get started? >> >> Not really. There's some interest from other FreeBSD committers to get this >> going, so I'll let them chime in. > > Surprisingly silent so far. Is there a better list to post this to? There aren't many folks working on this. -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
