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It is really easy to just purchase a better supported wifi card.

nix23 5y ago
It is supported as you can read for yourself: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?iwm(4) https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?iwm(4) >Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265 Yeah please tell me what is "better" supported?
- morpheos137 5y ago
  I don't know much about the current state of freebsd wifi drivers or drivers for modern cards but I can say for certain the OpenBSD has excellent support particularly for the Atheros cards, under the ath and athn drivers for 802.11a/b/g/n. Never had an issue with link speed in the past 10 years. In my experience on OpenBSD at least Intel cards are not as well supported as Atheros. For example the iwn driver for some intel cards seems buggy / flawed at times. As I said I have not used FreeBSD recently but might be worth trying an Atheros card. As far as I know FreeBSD does not offer many advantages over OpenBSD besides ZFS support abd maybe linux comparibility if that still exists. I started with FreeBSD but switched to OpenBSD about a decade ago and found that the hardware support for Thinkpads was excellent. I heard at one time not sure if this is true anymore but I heard that many FreeBSD developers are MacOS users while OpenBSD developers actually develop from OpenBSD on thinkpads thus Thinkpad hardware support is usually excellent. If your ac card is slower than a/b/g/n then downgrade obviously.
  - nix23 5y ago
    Yeah, tell me what card is good, and not that others have a problem...you know that would be some real help. >As I said I have not used FreeBSD recently but might be worth trying an Atheros card. Yeah NO, i don't buy a card just to try out. >As far as I know FreeBSD does not offer many advantages over OpenBSD besides ZFS support abd maybe linux comparibility if that still exists Stop with that, i used FreeBSD since over 5 years, i know why i use FreeBSD and not Net or Open-BSD
    - morpheos137 5y ago
      Chances are you don't need an ac card. see https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+13.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sekt... Man you can get an atheros card off of ebay probably for less than $15 shipping included. If your OS does not support your card you could try using a card that is supported, a different OS, or a wired link. What I don't get is somebody complaining about wifi speed in 2021 when a replacement card is $15. Anyway only trying to be helpful. If you are doing almost anything over the internet there is no advantage of ac over abgn. The wifi lan is not the bottleneck. If you are doing something local that requires superfast data transfer then just run gigabit ethernet or whatever the the cool kids are doing these days.

It is supported as you can read for yourself: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?iwm(4) https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?iwm(4) >Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265 Yeah please tell me what is "better" supported?

morpheos137 5y ago
I don't know much about the current state of freebsd wifi drivers or drivers for modern cards but I can say for certain the OpenBSD has excellent support particularly for the Atheros cards, under the ath and athn drivers for 802.11a/b/g/n. Never had an issue with link speed in the past 10 years. In my experience on OpenBSD at least Intel cards are not as well supported as Atheros. For example the iwn driver for some intel cards seems buggy / flawed at times. As I said I have not used FreeBSD recently but might be worth trying an Atheros card. As far as I know FreeBSD does not offer many advantages over OpenBSD besides ZFS support abd maybe linux comparibility if that still exists. I started with FreeBSD but switched to OpenBSD about a decade ago and found that the hardware support for Thinkpads was excellent. I heard at one time not sure if this is true anymore but I heard that many FreeBSD developers are MacOS users while OpenBSD developers actually develop from OpenBSD on thinkpads thus Thinkpad hardware support is usually excellent. If your ac card is slower than a/b/g/n then downgrade obviously.
- nix23 5y ago
  Yeah, tell me what card is good, and not that others have a problem...you know that would be some real help. >As I said I have not used FreeBSD recently but might be worth trying an Atheros card. Yeah NO, i don't buy a card just to try out. >As far as I know FreeBSD does not offer many advantages over OpenBSD besides ZFS support abd maybe linux comparibility if that still exists Stop with that, i used FreeBSD since over 5 years, i know why i use FreeBSD and not Net or Open-BSD
  - morpheos137 5y ago
    Chances are you don't need an ac card. see https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+13.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&apropos=0&sekt... Man you can get an atheros card off of ebay probably for less than $15 shipping included. If your OS does not support your card you could try using a card that is supported, a different OS, or a wired link. What I don't get is somebody complaining about wifi speed in 2021 when a replacement card is $15. Anyway only trying to be helpful. If you are doing almost anything over the internet there is no advantage of ac over abgn. The wifi lan is not the bottleneck. If you are doing something local that requires superfast data transfer then just run gigabit ethernet or whatever the the cool kids are doing these days.