USB WiFi ac adapter

[Terpentijn]

Any usb wifi ac adapter for FreeBSD? I would really like the speed of a 5Ghz ac connection. Any recommendation is welcome. I'm on FreeBSD 13-RC3 which is running great btw

 

[tuxador]

Sadly 802.11AC is not supported yet by FreeBSD. You will be likely have at best 802.11N

 

[tuxador]

Chapter 34. Advanced Networking

Advanced networking in FreeBSD: basics of gateways and routes, CARP, how to configure multiple VLANs on FreeBSD, etc

docs.freebsd.org

 

[Alexander88207]

In my opinion, the best method for looking a working wifi device is to read the man pages of the individual drivers such as rtwn(), ral() or iwm() and then look for a stick or pci card with the supported chipset that fits for you.

For example i have bought a Hommie Dual-Band WiFi Card AC PCIE Card that is using the iwm() driver. (No intentional advertising at this point.)

iwm0: <Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 7265> mem 0xa0100000-0xa0101fff at device 0.0 on pci2

 

[Terpentijn]

Sadly, it’s for my laptop. So a card won’t do. Any ideas about the future support for 802.11AC support in FreeBSD? Is it being worked on? If not, it’s ok too. I love my fbsd 13 desktop. It’s fast, snappy. IMO it’s the best release yet.

 

[Alexander88207]

Any ideas about the future support for 802.11AC support in FreeBSD? Is it being worked on?

WiFi/80211ac - FreeBSD Wiki

 

[Terpentijn]

WiFi/80211ac - FreeBSD Wiki

Hmm. Looked at the pages and it seems like a long way to go . I’ll be patient.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Hommie Dual-Band WiFi Card AC PCIE Card

Thanks, I added this suggestion and others to my <https://gist.github.com/grahamperri...84ed442e214c#freebsd-wi-fi-suggested-adapters>

FreeBSD: Wi-Fi: suggested adapters

 

[drr]

A workaround is suggested in Thread slow-wifi.82668 post #3 by jbodenmann, to pass the wifi adapter through to a bhyve VM capable of running the adapter in 802.11ac, and use that as the router for the host.