diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/wireless-iwx.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/wireless-iwx.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-10-2024-12/wireless-iwx.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== Wireless Update + +Contact: Tom Jones +Contact: The FreeBSD wireless mailing list + +With Support from the FreeBSD Foundation this quarter I started working on porting the iwx WiFi driver from OpenBSD (via Haiku). +The iwx driver supports many of the chipsets supported by iwlwifi, but rather than make that driver more complex the OpenBSD developers decided to support these devices in a new driver. + +iwx on OpenBSD currently supports running as a station in 80211abgn and ac, it does not yet support ax rates. +The goals of this project are to import a maintainable driver from OpenBSD and to gradually increase support until we have a native driver in FreeBSD with support for 80211ac (and potentially 80211ax). + +Currently the driver supports 80211a and 80211g and is able to saturate the practical limits of the rates these standards offers (roughly 28Mbit down and 25 Mbit up). +The driver is under active development and moving quite quickly. + +The plan for the next quarter is to add support for high throughput rates, implement monitor mode and stabilise the driver for a public call for testing. + +Once the driver is stable enough a call for testing will be posted to the link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-current[freebsd-current] and link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-wireless[freebsd-wireless] mailing lists. + + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation