Re: WiFi card comes up as device lo0

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> This is the output I got from dmesg:
>
> vendor 10ec product 8185 (ethernet network, revision 0x20) at pci4 dev 9 function 0 not configured
>
> I hope that contains the pci id, if not I may need some guidance.
>
> this is what I got from pcictl pci0 list:
>
> 008:09:0: Realtek Semiconductor 8185 802.11a/b/g (ethernet network, revision 0x20)

It looks like I have bad news: the commit entry in OpenBSD (at a
time our upstream for this driver, I beleive) which surrounded
the 8185 entry with "only compile this if RTW_DEBUG is set" (and
it isn't set...) says:

   Only match on RTL8185 if RTW_DEBUG is set, support for the RTL8185
   was never finished due to a lack of information on the radios.
   ok reyk@

The path I would choose in that case would be to get a USB WiFi
adapter, perhaps one supported by the urtwn driver, and use that
instead of the unsupported built-in wireless device.

Best regards,

- Håvard