Re: WiFi Tool for BSD

2018-04-05 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
>On 1 April 2018 at 05:24, Alex Andrews wrote: >> What would be really useful is a simple wifi debugging tool that >> could run through all of the steps necessary to get a wifi card >> working (check the driver is loaded and working, check "syctl >> net.lan.devices", then check /etc/rc.conf for th

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 Mateusz Piotrowski
an Chadd wrote: > 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,

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