Saturday, October 31, 2015

Fixing up the QCA9558 performance on FreeBSD, or "why attention to detail matters when you're a kernel developer."

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When I started with this Atheros MIPS 11n stuff a few years ago, my first test board was a Routerstation Pro with a pair of AR9160 NICs. I c...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Fixing up the RTL8188SU/RTL8192SU 802.11bgn driver (rsu)

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I recently figured out most of the missing pieces for 11n support and stability with the rsu driver in FreeBSD. This handles support for the...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

As requested: progress of AR9170

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Hi! The progress of the AR9170 FreeBSD-ification can be found here: https://github.com/erikarn/otus Yes, I did actually keep the histo...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Porting a wifi driver from openbsd - AR9170

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I told myself a long, long time ago that I really don't want to be working on USB wireless. It's not that I dislike USB or wireless;...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

FreeBSD now has NUMA? Why'd it take so long?

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I just committed "NUMA" to FreeBSD. Well, no, I didn't. I did almost no actual NUMA-y work in FreeBSD. I just exposed the exis...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

The importance of mentoring, or "how I got involved in FreeBSD"..

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Here's how I was introduced into this UNIX world, or "wait, WHO was your WHAT?" So, here's 11ish or so year old Adrian. ...
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

RTL-SDR on FreeBSD, or "hey, cool, I live near an airport, I wonder if ADSB works.."

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I bought one of those cheap RTL-SDR units a few months ago. There's no real kernel code required for it - all of the rtl-sdr code just u...
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