[talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks

[George Rosamond]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:30:10PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote:
>> Justin Sherrill wrote:
>>>
>>> http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-August/128792.html
>>>
>>> A bunch of the problems reported there have been fixed.  Adrian
>>> @FreeBSD has been talking about this and other driver stuff on
>>> #dragonflybsd, so this may make it 'over'.
>>>
>>
>> Wow... very interesting.
>>
>> What is a "noisy" touchpad and touchscreen?
>>
>> One way to deal with shaky 802.11 is to use a USB wireless with a decent
>> chipset.
> 
> George, have you found one that constantly works? When I was trying to find
> one, prior to FreeBSD-10 coming out, there weren't very many available.
> 

there's tenda which uses run(4) Ralinks available at Microcenter.  I had
been using urtwn (OpenBSD) which were dodgy.

My current bet is to trust run(4) on USB over anything else, including
the stock card.

g