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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:11:25 -0000 hi! If you can pull out bits from say the linux driver to update our drivers then sure! Even if you don't succeed I bet you'll learn a lot! -adrian On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 12:45, lr x wrote: > Hello! > > I'm a grad student taking an Operating Systems course this semester where I > can officially work on something for FreeBSD for ~3 months! Do you think > either of the following ideas would be good to have? (Plan to work ~15-20 > hours a week for 12-14 weeks) > > 1) Adding 802.11n support to the run(4) driver. > For example, the ASUS USB N66[1] device. > The run(4) man page states: > "CAVEATS > The run driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities > offered > by the RT2800, RT3000 and RT3900 chipsets." > > 2) Adding RTL8814AU support to the rtwn(4) driver. > Devices such as AWUS1900[2] (multiple antennas) and D-Link DWA-192[3] (ball > shaped device) use this chipset. > > I'd appreciate your feedback on this so that I can decide what to do. > If you have any other ideas that might be potentially more useful for > FreeBSD, I'll be happy to consider them and talk to my professor about it. > > [1] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_USB-N66 and > https://www.asus.com/Networking/USBN66/ > [2] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ALFA_Network_AWUS1900 and > https://www.alfa.com.tw/service_1_detail/15.htm > [3] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-192 > > Thanks, > Ashish Gupta > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >