hiya, I think we can backport the whole thing, but it comes with a lot of other changes. I'll talk to Andriy about it; maybe we can pick a time where we can just checkpoint the whole -head wireless stack + drivers and backport it in one hit.
-a On 28 November 2016 at 17:51, Chris H <bsdli...@xmail.net> wrote: > > Greetings, all. > I recently set out to create a wireless gateway, out of one of my servers. > I ran across a PCIe card that had the Realtek 8188CE chip on it, and upon > further investigation, indicated it was a pretty capable chip indeed. So I > looked in hopes of finding FreeBSD supported it. While not listed in > HARDWARE.txt anywhere. I did find quite a bit of evidence that it was > indeed supported (via rtwn(4)). So I ordered one. It just arrived, and I > loaded > in loader.conf(5): > if_rtwn_load="YES" > > But further installation seems to indicate that (at least in RELENG_11) that > the rtwn(4) driver is (only?) intended for dongles (USB), and not the PCIe > version(s) of the RTL8188CE chipset. Is this true? If so, is the work on > CURRENT (12), which *does* appear to support the RTL8188CE, (back)portable > to 11? Normally, I'd find it fairly trivial to back port the changes, but I > see what appears to be a complete re-organization to the network > infrastructure > where drivers are concerned. > I'm not on 12, and can't make the jump yet. So here's hoping. > > Thank you for all your time, and consideration. > > --Chris > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
