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+=== Wireless Update
+
+Contact: Tom Jones <thj@FreeBSD.org>
+Contact: The FreeBSD wireless mailing list <wireless@FreeBSD.org>
+
+With Support from the FreeBSD Foundation this quarter I started working on porting the iwx WiFi driver from OpenBSD (via Haiku).
+The iwx driver supports many of the chipsets supported by iwlwifi, but rather than make that driver more complex the OpenBSD developers decided to support these devices in a new driver.
+
+iwx on OpenBSD currently supports running as a station in 80211abgn and ac, it does not yet support ax rates.
+The goals of this project are to import a maintainable driver from OpenBSD and to gradually increase support until we have a native driver in FreeBSD with support for 80211ac (and potentially 80211ax).
+
+Currently the driver supports 80211a and 80211g and is able to saturate the practical limits of the rates these standards offers (roughly 28Mbit down and 25 Mbit up).
+The driver is under active development and moving quite quickly.
+
+The plan for the next quarter is to add support for high throughput rates, implement monitor mode and stabilise the driver for a public call for testing.
+
+Once the driver is stable enough a call for testing will be posted to the link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-current[freebsd-current] and link:https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-wireless[freebsd-wireless] mailing lists.
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+Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation

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