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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 19:45:39 -0000 Hello! I'm a grad student taking an Operating Systems course this semester where I can officially work on something for FreeBSD for ~3 months! Do you think either of the following ideas would be good to have? (Plan to work ~15-20 hours a week for 12-14 weeks) 1) Adding 802.11n support to the run(4) driver. For example, the ASUS USB N66[1] device. The run(4) man page states: "CAVEATS The run driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the RT2800, RT3000 and RT3900 chipsets." 2) Adding RTL8814AU support to the rtwn(4) driver. Devices such as AWUS1900[2] (multiple antennas) and D-Link DWA-192[3] (ball shaped device) use this chipset. I'd appreciate your feedback on this so that I can decide what to do. If you have any other ideas that might be potentially more useful for FreeBSD, I'll be happy to consider them and talk to my professor about it. [1] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_USB-N66 and https://www.asus.com/Networking/USBN66/ [2] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ALFA_Network_AWUS1900 and https://www.alfa.com.tw/service_1_detail/15.htm [3] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-192 Thanks, Ashish Gupta