supporting AR8161/8165

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr]

On 01/01/13 20:47, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 1 January 2013 20:26, YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 12:29:29PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to support the AR8161/8165 chipset?
>>> [ none2 at pci… class=0x02000 card=0x397917aa chip=0x10911969 rev=0x08 hdr=0x00 ]
>>>
>>
>   This decision made QAC to overhaul Linux driver
>> (alx) to follow Linux's decision and their priority was to get a
>> stable Linux driver. It was long time ago and I don't know current
>> status.
>
> :(
>
>> QAC already donated a couple of engineering samples so I guess it
>> wouldn't take a long time for me to write a driver for
>> AR816x/AR817x but I still have mixed feelings about writing a
>> driver at this moment.
>
> Why the mixed feelings?  The more hardware we support out of the box
> the more likely it is that users will stick with FreeBSD.
>
> If I could tell people that "yes, this laptop completely works with
> FreeBSD" that would be awesome.
>

If I might jump in, I would love to tell people I know the same thing, 
but I cannot because /my/ wifi card isn't supported (and, as I 
understand it, mine is because the hw vendor apparently likes it like that).

I am finding FreeBSD to be great on a desktop/server, but I need to be 
mobile with my laptop and not tied to an ethernet card or a ndist hack 
that may or may not cause a kernel panic.

-- 
Yours in Christ,

Joseph A Nagy Jr
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