On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 01:57:46PM -0700, Heppler, J. Scott wrote: > The wikidevi entry suggests that this may be low-hanging fruit to > add to OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD. The question I have is whether to give > the MediaTek away and try to purchase on older RealTek or be patient and > wait a few months?
Drivers do not write themselves, and as far as I know nobody is working on this newer family of mediatek chips. Which is unfortunate. Finding a working USB wifi dongle should not be hard. If in doubt, try pasting some of the device names listed in man pages into ebay.
