Re: WiFi card comes up as device lo0

[Carl Miller <ka5kab%comcast.net@localhost>]

Hi Havard,

Thanks for your help. I am using a USB wireless adapter right now, but 
it seems to be kind of flaky at times. But, good enough I guess for now. 
Maybe down the road I could pick up a compatible wifi card and stick 
that in the old laptop.

Thanks,

Carl

On 5/23/2019 3:07 AM, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > 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