Re: Realtek RTL8188EUS driver (urtwn)

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

Do you know when rtwn arrived in NetBSD?   My 7.0 manual does not have
the man page you excerpt, /usr/src/sys/dev/pci has no if_rtwn_pci.c
(which I would have expected to see), and config -x | grep rtw  yields:

rtw*    at pci? dev ? function ?        # Realtek 8180L (802.11)
rtw*    at cardbus? function ?  # Realtek 8180L (802.11)
urtw*   at uhub? port ?         # Realtek RTL8187/RTL8187B 802.11b/g
urtwn*  at uhub? port ?         # Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU 802.11b/g/n

So at a guess I need something more recent than stock 7.0.
Do I need just a nes kernel, or is there firmware to download as well?

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:51:06 -0400
> Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
> > 
> > > vendor 0x10ec product 0x8179 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x01) at
> > > pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured
> > >
> > > refers to pci3, whereas from the driver name I would have thought it
> > > should appear as a usb device.
> 
> That's a PCI device, the urtwn driver is for USB devices.
> 
> > It may be that the next step is to add this vendor/product to the PCI
> > device list.  (That won't make it attach or work, but it probably leads
> > to a nicer message saying that it didn't attach.)
> 
> I'd try the rtwn driver, it's supposed to handle this chip or at least
> something similar ( not sure what the difference between 8188CE and
> 8188EE is ). May just need an extra PCI ID.
> 
> NAME
>      rtwn -- Realtek RTL8188CE/RTL8192CE PCIe IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless net-
>      work device
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>      rtwn* at pci? dev ? function ?
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      The rtwn driver supports PCIe wireless network devices based on the Real-
>      tek RTL8188CE and RTL8192CE chipset.
> 
> 
> > Then, if you can find out how this chip works from some other OS, or
> > From actually getting a programming guide from the manufacturer, you
> > can add it as a match in a driver that might be able to handle it.
> > It might be a similar chip to one netbsd supports, but that also has
> > a USB interface, and in your case the USB interface isn't being used.
> 
> If it was using USB it would probably appear as an ehci or something
> with a USB device behind it.
> 
> have fun
> Michael
> 


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