I meant to respond to you yesterday. Though I think we're going to disagree somewhat, I do appreciate the thoughtful responses. >Basically, the incentives don'

I meant to respond to you yesterday. Though I think we're going to disagree somewhat, I do appreciate the thoughtful responses. >Basically, the incentives don't align because you're using FreeBSD in a way that most users/devs aren't. I view this as a chicken/egg issue at this point - there is no reason to use FreeBSD on a laptop (and push/fix the other issues) without modern wifi. This also handicaps more than just laptops - e.g, the Raspberry Pi. >It took an insane amount of time and effort to get Linux KPI going for graphics card support (something that affected both laptop and desktop users), you can infer from that the odds of getting something only for laptop use to become a priority. I'm definitely aware of this - the mismatched incentives are why I asked in my last comment if this is just a funding/money issue. I recall that the FreeBSD Foundation has done funding work around wifi updates, but if that's not enough I'd like to know. e.g >The shortage for a project of this magnitude and nature isn't going to be lack of hardware, it's going to be lack of time and the opportunity cost for the few that could hack on this to stop hacking away on something else. When I ask if it's a money issue, I'm not asking if they need money to buy hardware - I'm asking if there's sufficient funding for software engineering time. Anyway, I've enjoyed the back and forth - here's hoping FreeBSD gets it eventually. I still love the OS to this day, but when it falls behind on stuff like this it can be rough.