On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 01:36:48PM -0400, Paul Suh wrote: > There is a somewhat old message indicating that there isn't a maintainer for > Realtek WiFi cards on FreeBSD: > > > <http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Wireless-card-Realtek-RTL8723AE-is-not > -recognized-in-9-0-9-1-RC2-and-10-Current-td5757745.html> > > ...which would indicate to me that it's not a priority in the general BSD > community.
The main issue is that there's only a handful of people working on wifi in *BSD so there's always more to do than can be done. > There seems to be active Linux driver here: > > <https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs> > > At first glance it looks like it needs a firmware blob. It's an SDIO device, not PCI or USB. I don't know what the current state of our SDIO support code is but it's definitely not used by many drivers, if at all. I doubt the SDIO bus connection would work without further SDIO development efforts.
