From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 13:52:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE87481 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:52:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from b.smeelen@ose.nl) Received: from mail.ose.nl (mail.ose.nl [212.178.134.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76288FC08 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:52:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Footer: b3NlLm5s Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ose.nl (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES256-SHA (256 bits)); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:52:47 +0100 Message-ID: <50C88C2B.4070007@ose.nl> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:52:43 +0100 From: Bas Smeelen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, paul.g.webster@googlemail.com Subject: Re: Request for merge into 9.x References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:52:56 -0000 On 12/12/2012 02:29 PM, Paul Webster wrote: > Hello I was recently reading about your work on the Ralink 2860, I run > an EEEPC 1000 at the moment and have always wanted to run freebsd on > it; however due to the wireless not being supported and a hatred for > hanging usb dongles handing everywhere; I had to run linux. > > I am no driver developer, but I would love to give your driver a trial > run on 9.1-RELEASE or -STABLE if easier, I am quite sure once everyone > with an eeepc realizes we finally have a working wifi card; they will > be most impressed :) > > as an aside, if you could leave me some simplish instructions on howto > actually generate the kernel module in 9.0/9.1 -RELEASE I would > happily report how well it works > > -- paul There is work going on for this. You can keep an eye on http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee Maybe this link can help you http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7010 It is on the wiki page also, just onder the tasks table.