Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:36:59 +0000 From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> To: driesm.michiels@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Current state of recent wireless cards Message-ID: <CAFC648B-1A32-4FF3-AC98-23A2B93732D5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <000501d655e3$90c40170$b24c0450$@gmail.com> References: <000501d655e3$90c40170$b24c0450$@gmail.com>
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On 9 Jul 2020, at 11:24, driesm.michiels@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dreis, > I was wondering what the current state of the following wireless cards > is: > > * Intel Wireless-AC 9560 (T490 wifi card) > * Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (T14 wifi card) I am currently working under FreeBSD Foundation Sponsorship to get us full Intel HW support for all the new cards and up to 11ac wireless. The first half is done ( see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2020-July/009233.html ) which is the PCI attachments work, the firmware loads and starts. Now there’s a dual-case to be finished: net80211 11ac infrastructure to finish, which Adrian has started the last years, and we’ll see how much of a Linux compat layer we’ll manage to have (which would also help other drivers to be ported over more easily). The hope is that we’ll have full 11ac before the end of the year. > But besides that and AX support for the future I don't see any extra > value. I cannot say anything about 11ax yet, but certainly once 11ac is done that’s on the roadmap. /bz PS: I’d be careful with assuming that all the 9560s are supported; depends on the chipset; if it is, yes 11g still.
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