Hey all,
I finished updating and publishing my results for most of the hardware components and expansion cards that I own. The good news is that most of the equipment I have is supported. Another set of good news is that both the Ethernet (Expansion Card) and the Ethernet port on my Anker Hub seem to be performing well and I got 83 MiB/sec and 79 MiB/sec speeds transferring a 2.3 GB ISO over SAMBA/CIFS (using Thunar’s GVFS support). This is much better performance and stability compared to when I was using the same hardware on the 11th gen. This could either just be improvements to FreeBSD over time, and/or the AMD Mainboard just working better with all of the components. Not sure, but it’s definitely a good thing. Even the Camera and Microphone are both working.
@William_Pool Since I only need sound for the most part when it comes to Bluetooth, I decided to buy your recommended dongle. I’ll be receiving it in a few days and will play with it and my Sonos Ace. I’ll need to eventually retry the Intel AX210 on this machine and see what happens. I also have an older TP-Link Wifi dongle (IIRC it’s realtek based) which I want to retry.
I also subscribed to the FreeBSD-Desktop mailing list (in addition to my other FreeBSD mailing lists) and will be monitoring the Laptop and Desktop Working Group activity. I may attend sometimes depending on my availability. I would be happy to continue to share my experiences through there as well.
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I’m definitely looking forward to the future of FreeBSD on this machine (and Framework Computers in general). I’m also looking forward to that iwx Intel Wifi driver port from OpenBSD/Haiku ;D.