Freebsd foundation working on improving iwlwifi for 802.11ac transfer speeds

[NapoleonWils0n]

The FreeBSD Foundation is making significant strides in wireless development, led by Cheng Cui and Bjoern Zeeb.
Their primary goals are to fix bugs, stabilize the system, and improve iwlwifi for 802.11ac transfer speeds.
Zeeb’s recent contributions have brought stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based wireless drivers in FreeBSD 13.3.
They will soon focus on enhancing iwlwifi performance to achieve faster and more reliable wireless connections on FreeBSD systems.

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[blt2b]

Is there any news or a way to follow the development on this topic ? (apart from https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-wireless)

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Is there any news

Status report:

"Björn Zeeb continued to improve wireless networking on FreeBSD. As with last quarter, the focus was mainly on bug fixes and stability improvements. Most of Bjoern’s 30+ src commits were to LinuxKPI and net80211 code."

Release note (draft):

"There have been many stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based wireless drivers. (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)"

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Also in Bugzilla, the meta bug.

Seek its alias: iwlwifi