From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 11 10:51:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC3CD5C5 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from potato.growveg.org (potato.growveg.org [62.49.247.163]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 664F61396 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from john by potato.growveg.org with local (Exim 4.82 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1WDAwN-0007kd-Au for freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:51:47 +0000 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:51:47 +0000 From: John To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release or stable, for wifi Message-ID: <20140211105147.GA29770@potato.growveg.org> References: <20140211103131.GA27302@potato.growveg.org> <20140211183943.7036dcf1@X220.alogt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140211183943.7036dcf1@X220.alogt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: John X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: john@potato.growveg.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on potato.growveg.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:51:49 -0000 On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 06:39:43PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:31:31 +0000 > John wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > Is it better (for wireless) to follow 10-R, 10-STABLE or 11? The > > situation is an acer aspire v5 netbook. I'm running new xorg because > > it's an amd c70 with a radeon chipset. Thing is, it needs some kind of > > reliability. Wireless is provided by the ath0 driver. > > I am on 10 since June/July 2012. It was HEAD then. I will stay with 10 > as long as possible and the switch to the then HEAD. I do this since > many years and find it the easiest way for me. I had a feeling this might be the case, thanks for confirming. -- John