From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 23:34:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69632E5 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ignoranthack.me (ignoranthack.me [199.102.79.106]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 495FD2AED for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.200.204] (c-50-131-5-126.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [50.131.5.126]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sbruno@ignoranthack.me) by mail.ignoranthack.me (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C42AB1936DE; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: need your opnion about wifi device From: Sean Bruno Reply-To: sbruno@freebsd.org To: Hooman Fazaeli In-Reply-To: <539F6FCC.7030003@gmail.com> References: <539EB2FA.3050700@gmail.com> <1402927447.16961.3.camel@bruno> <539F6FCC.7030003@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:34:12 -0700 Message-ID: <1402961652.1905.2.camel@bruno> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:34:15 -0000 On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 02:59 +0430, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: > On 6/16/2014 6:34 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 13:33 +0430, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am planning to buy one the following USB WiFi devices: > > > > > > 1.Tenda W311U+ > > > 2.TP-Link TL-WN7200ND > > > > > > I would appriciate if anyone share his experiences with the above devices. > > > BTW, I plan to use the device on freebsd/8. > > > > > > > These both appear to be Ralink based devices. AFAIK there is no FreeBSD > > support for either device. > > > > sean > > > > According to: > > https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Tenda_W311U%2B > https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN7200ND > > Both devices use Ralink RT3070 chipset, which are apparently supported > by run(4) driver, as stated in the man page. > Am I missing something obvious? > > > > > Looked at sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_run.c I don't see a TP-LINK in there ... you may be able to get away with adding it. sean