From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 03:37:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C846870 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gg0-f171.google.com (mail-gg0-f171.google.com [209.85.161.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBF68FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 03:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gg0-f171.google.com with SMTP id 4so2110436ggm.16 for ; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:37:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7pG49HJLL0Cq2wTMYQx3jN6hz2Uw1idB6b7lQUy0DWM=; b=PDhF/PVpZ6rZJEAwamlXd/+JD8avtDGdBGRFtQgNxXIvefyzU78oCfOP4hiLq4AlVI AjoAhd6M4b++sVDrEaaQQokq5+20N6Jhc6+785rxlIxsU3ZkVwsbB52xqF5nlzHKVR2o 50RhEX03l2dSDVHPIgQd6VX2/zvS3kI9y1LqIqIrKssZQSEc4qkJvyes/f7wIOLJJIwl l/BCXUm5jcuXE0jxS5HXlIeisfiKE3wtzil6Hi5ewCZPKirb9kSXXOIpc8iSb90c1uDk d33aAAXzdl5tCyW2pZRjLNUgesuqpM6vCdMpW3A7zcW2vAgGx69V0vJosOxz+sW6eUdD s1sg== X-Received: by 10.236.121.207 with SMTP id r55mr38534074yhh.75.1357096148731; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:09:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (vid-196.dhcp.grp10.tnmmrl.infoave.net. [204.116.254.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f14sm38197245anl.0.2013.01.01.19.09.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:09:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50E3A4D1.1020209@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:09:05 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: supporting AR8161/8165 References: <20130102012604.GA6382@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:37:14 -0000 On 01/01/13 20:47, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 1 January 2013 20:26, YongHyeon PYUN 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@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 "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org