FreeBSD 10 opinion

[throAU]

You keep harping this and it is not helping. In an ideal world, this would be the way to go. In the real word, it just doesn't happen that way. If hardware is considered "legacy", sometimes as quickly as three years after release, there will be no new drivers. You either make the ones you have work, stay with an older OS version or throw out the hardware.

So have you told the vendors or not? If no one tells them they may not even know it is a problem. You say @@wblock is not helping, but if all you're doing is telling the forum and not the vendor, you're doing nothing to help the root cause either.