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Date:      Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:58:27 +0200
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor
Message-ID:  <20140928115827.2c6bafe7.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1s41qxEXkeZ2ZRnt_o2=JSHoNs4ng9orWHRon7G1Bujow@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20140927143830.1d25968f.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20140927222208.GA20243@e-new.0x20.net> <20140928080643.1b5c991b.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <5427A8C5.1010703@freebsd.org> <CAN6yY1s41qxEXkeZ2ZRnt_o2=JSHoNs4ng9orWHRon7G1Bujow@mail.gmail.com>

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Am Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:44:19 -0700
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> schrieb:

> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.or=
g>
> wrote:
>=20
> >
> > On 09/27/14 23:06, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >
> >> Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:22:09 +0200
> >> Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> schrieb:
> >>
> >>  On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 02:38:30PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card a=
nd
> >>>> want to
> >>>> replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor.
> >>>>
> >>>> Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest
> >>>> modern hardware
> >>>> (Haswell CPU/Intel  7260 DualBand WiFi NIC), I'd like to ask here fi=
rst.
> >>>>
> >>>> I found this PCIe adaptor card attractive:
> >>>>
> >>>> GigaByte Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I
> >>>>
> >>>> I can not find ad hoc the WLAN chip used on that specific card, but
> >>>> maybe someone has
> >>>> experiences with that litte board.
> >>>>
> >>> FreeBSD doensn't support 802.11ac, yet.
> >>>
> >> I'm bitter aware of that. This OS doesn't support the chipsets, even if
> >> they provide also
> >> 11a/g/n.
> >>
> >> We have at our department now a bunch of Lenovo hardware, with Intels
> >> 7260 chipset. The
> >> laptops are now runninmg Ubuntu 14.0X something which obviously suppor=
ts
> >> the WiFi chip.
> >> I'm the last man standing with FreeBSD on my private Lenovo :-(
> >>
> >
> > This is a serious problem. I'm about ready to install Linux on my laptop
> > as well just to get a usable system. Some kind of funding directed to a
> > willing developer would be hugely valuable for the usability of the
> > operating system on recent hardware. This is probably more important ev=
en
> > than Haswell graphics since without a driver, Haswell is merely slow,
> > whereas networking is completely broken.
> > -Nathan
>=20
>=20
> While I don't yet have need of it and probably won't any time soon,
> Haswell support is becoming critical. It is getting more and more difficu=
lt
> to get boards with pre-Haswell processors, especially for laptops. It is
> still pretty easy to get supported WiFi cards for both desktops and
> laptops. I feel Haswell is getting to be a critical issue.

I use the xf86-video-scfb driver, VESA driver doesn' coop with the resoluti=
on of my
display (called Full HD, 1980x1080 pixel). VESA complains about not know re=
solution when
starting.

The SCFB is unusable. The i5-4200M CPU has enough stamina to do well, but w=
hen it comes
to video/desktop/graphics under load, the graphics is rendered unusable.=20


The laptop is not productive and an expensive heap of plastic, silica and m=
etal with
FreeBSD that way.

>=20
> VESA is available for Haswell systems, but it is very slow and too often
> the BIOS support of VESA is poor. Vendors want text mode for boot and suc=
h,
> but really have little interest in graphics as Intel has good native
> Windows drivers for them.Still waiting for Lenovo to fix VESA for my old
> Sandy Bridge laptop. I used VESA, which was badly broken, for almost a ye=
ar
> waiting for KMS support, though I did get a recent BIOS update and have n=
ot
> tried VESA on it.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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