Re: Any hope for 802.11ac on an Atheros chip?

Drivers for newer WiFi cards have proved elusive, and I've heard of several
failed attempts.

It is not a great solution, and 64-bit x86 only, but this might be
interesting: https://github.com/Netgate/musenki

It is very early in development and isn't quite complete, but work is
moving fast. I honestly don't have any performance numbers yet, but I know
that it is functional.

I know that this idea has been around for a while, I don't have links back
to that work.

You could use the basic ideas to establish a manually configured connection
with any linux kernel that supports your wifi card.


On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 11:05 AM Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote:

> I recently got a laptop, and picked up an Atheros QCA6174 2x2 802.11ac
> card for it. But after putting it in. FreeBSD-(13 && 13.1) doesn't even
> know it's there. I was sure that they were supported, as it was reported
> to be "close/almost finished" in the July-September 2020 Quarterly
> report[1]
> as well as a report by Adrian that "We know whats missing"[2] somewhat
> later on the mailing list.
> So where can I find it? :-)
>
> Thank you for all your time, and consideration.
>
> --Chris
>
>
> 1. https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2020-07-2020-09.html
> 2. https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org/msg06983.html



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