Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:45:00 +0300 From: atar <atar.yosef@gmail.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TL-WN722N support on FreeBSD. Message-ID: <1EE2934C-DA78-451F-B86A-93A9C55B9C56@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53FC60AB.1060805@qeng-ho.org> References: <C18F5819-A884-4A86-9FBA-FF7CEFF70695@gmail.com> <53FC60AB.1060805@qeng-ho.org>
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Ok, I've understood the point. So probably there's no way to use this popula= r TP-LINK dongle with FreeBSD. Very alas. Disappointed. > On 26/08/2014 08:32, atar wrote: >> Hi there! >>=20 >> According to what's written in the following URLs: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=3D41581 , > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/ath_hal(4)/HardwareSupport > > (under the 'Chipsets I won't be working on' section) the > > TL-WN722N TP-LINK wireless dongle isn't supported on freeBSD > > since its chipset is based on the AR9271 chipset which isn't > > supported by FreeBSD. >>=20 >> Now, my question is, since the above mentioned device is supported > > by Linux via a special atheros firmware module, and since FreeBSD > > provides a Linux virtualization, will this device work on a FreeBSD > > system by its Linux virtualization capability? >=20 > I'm not familiar with the Atheros firmware, but the likely answer is no. L= inux virtualization (probably better described as emulation) is at the user s= pace level, i.e. it mimics the interface of Linux syscalls. Device drivers w= ork in kernel space, and the FreeBSD kernel has very different internals fro= m Linux. >=20 >=20
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