Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:05:31 -0800 From: Yusuf Khan <yusisamerican@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?B?UMOhbGkgR8OhYm9y?= <pali.gabor@gmail.com>, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How would I make a driver? Message-ID: <CAJoG2%2B9g8OmcJb5kbJTBpkr4pwMfe2VSnS3r3zFaUyKT6XRP2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHnG2CyfBWvoBya4oX0CYOqnGGF_MK-_crJ3SR%2B2c6--yLf48Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJoG2%2B9J4DNG7-TxVinrAMJ1CG0RmHisu8w1_6u8NCgg4=Fq5g@mail.gmail.com> <CAHnG2CyfBWvoBya4oX0CYOqnGGF_MK-_crJ3SR%2B2c6--yLf48Q@mail.gmail.com>
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That would be great, thanks! Would it use much ram(less than 80ish MB) and why doesnt it use mkroot? Also does it run on other BSD hosts, and should I open a github issue? Thanks, Yusuf On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:19 PM P=C3=A1li G=C3=A1bor <pali.gabor@gmail.com>= wrote: > > Hi Yusuf, > > Le mer. 12 janv. 2022 =C3=A0 04:55, Yusuf Khan <yusisamerican@gmail.com> = a =C3=A9crit : > > I have a rtl 8821ce wireless adapter which does not currently have > > a driver out for FreeBSD. [..] how would I actually get > > to writting the wireless driver(ie. getting the driver to load, > > running FreeBSD on my laptop and loading the driver and other misc > > stuff) > > I may have some good news for you. A couple of months ago, I have > started a project called "FreeBSD Wifibox" [1] to experiment with > using the original Linux drivers via BHyVe PCI pass-through to talk to > the wireless NICs that are officially not supported by the FreeBSD > kernel as an easy alternative to porting the driver itself. It runs > Alpine Linux as a guest OS and it uses its drivers, which would be > rtl8821ce-lts [2] in your case, I believe. The latest (0.6.2) release > does not include this package, so you will not be able to use it right > away, but maybe I could help you to make it work like I did for the > ath10k driver [3]. > > Would you be interested? > > Cheers, > G=C3=A1bor > > [1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox > [2] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/rtl8821ce-= lts > [3] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox/issues/6
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