My laptop uses the RTL8188EE chipset for WiFi, which recently landed support in FreeBSD with this commit.
I'd like to be able to use this new driver on my laptop while remaining as close to a "stable" system as possible. What's the best way to go about doing this? I'm not sure if the driver currently only exists in 13-CURRENT or if its been backported to 12-STABLE, if I can fairly easily build it into a 12.0-RELEASE system by compiling the kernel from source, or what.
I don't really have the time to constantly tinker with a system that can crash on me at any moment (I'm a student in college), so staying as close to an official release as possible is important for me. I'm willing to put in some work at the beginning to get things working, though.
I'd like to be able to use this new driver on my laptop while remaining as close to a "stable" system as possible. What's the best way to go about doing this? I'm not sure if the driver currently only exists in 13-CURRENT or if its been backported to 12-STABLE, if I can fairly easily build it into a 12.0-RELEASE system by compiling the kernel from source, or what.
I don't really have the time to constantly tinker with a system that can crash on me at any moment (I'm a student in college), so staying as close to an official release as possible is important for me. I'm willing to put in some work at the beginning to get things working, though.