TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD.

[Russell L. Carter]

On 08/31/14 00:46, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 30 August 2014 12:57,  <kpneal at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:16:04PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>> So yeah. Almost all of the work is done in the atheros driver side of
>>> things. Heck, the AR9271 bits for the HAL are likely just an evenings
>>> worth of work for me. I just don't want to deal with the USB side of
>>> it.
>>>
>>> I'm not being paid to do any of the wireless stuff in FreeBSD, so it
>>> has to clear the "is it fun" threshold.
>>
>> Personally, I don't do wireless. Ever.
>>
>> The real issue you just brought up is that FreeBSD is a volunteer project,
>> and not a product. The work that gets done is either funded by someone (by
>> dollar, mostly by businesses) that want something specific, or out of the
>> kindness of someone's heart.
>>
>> If someone who cared wanted to fund FreeBSD's wireless work then would you
>> turn down the funding?  If you were willing, what's the procedure for
>> someone (not me) to fund the work?
> 
> I can't really take that on right now personally, but what I can
> suggest is that you contact the FreeBSD foundation and let them know
> that you'd like to see improved wireless and you're willing to donate
> / fund the work.
> 

Since (new|more) talent in the 80211++ space is evidently needed,
I would suggest trying a bounty.  Maybe $5K?  That's a lot
of money in many places in the world.  (Adrian has done
tremendous work, but what about die bus?  It happens to
all of us, eventually.)

I'm a wired-by-default guy, with a house full of CAT5, but the
future is wireless.

Russell
> 
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