8187SE driver

Weongyo Jeong weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 04:31:30 PST 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:04:07PM +0100, Jim Andersson wrote:
> 
> > From: weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:39:26 +0900
> > To: freebsddog at hotmail.com
> > CC: freebsd-drivers at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: FW: 8187SE driver
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:23:33PM +0100, Jim Andersson wrote:
> > > 
> > > From: freebsddog at hotmail.com
> > > To: weongyo at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: RE: 8187SE driver
> > > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:22:15 +0100
> > > 
> > > > From: weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
> > > > Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:16:23 +0900
> > > > To: freebsddog at hotmail.com
> > > > CC: freebsd-drivers at freebsd.org
> > > > Subject: Re: 8187SE driver
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 04:16:43PM +0100, Jim Andersson wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > From: weongyo.jeong at gmail.com
> > > > > > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:04:26 +0900
> > > > > > To: freebsddog at hotmail.com
> > > > > > CC: freebsd-drivers at freebsd.org
> > > > > > Subject: Re: 8187SE driver
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:48:32AM +0100, Jim Andersson wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > Is there any chance of getting my wireless card running in
> > > > > > > CURRENT. Linux says it???s a Realtek 8187SE wireless network
> > > > > > > card. I have seen some driver for other 8187 cards, is it
> > > > > > > possible to force such driver to try identify the card?
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > >  
> > > > > > > Here is the output of pciconf -lv in my FreeBSD
> > > > > > > CURRENT:none1 at pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x819910ec
> > > > > > > chip=0x819910ec rev=0x22 hdr=0x00vendor = 'Realtek
> > > > > > > Semiconductor'class = network .
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I think a thing you can try is that, NDISulator using ndis(4).  AFAIK
> > > > > > there's no support for 8187SE driver until now.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > regards,
> > > > > > Weongyo Jeong
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I tried ndisulator but it didn´t work. I used the INF and the SYS
> > > > > file for Windows Xp. I even tried including a cat file.
> > > > > Although one thing changed, the card is no longer listed when i
> > > > > type pciconf -lv. Dunno if that´s good or bad?
> > > > 
> > > > It looks it's a bad news.  Could you please show me dmesg's ouput and
> > > > steps you followed?
> > > > 
> > > > regards,
> > > > Weongyo Jeong
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > As far as I can see the only thing in dmesg regarding this card is:
> > > 
> > > pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
> > > pci1: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> > > 
> > > What I did was this: I used my windows xp drivers for the card that I
> > > recieved with the computer. I used the .sys and the inf file. The
> > > driver loads good but no interface is shown. Is the someway to force
> > > the driver to attach to pci2 somehow?
> > 
> > Normally if it works well the device should be detected automatically
> > and should show some messages related with ndis(4).  It looks there are
> > another problems in your case.  BTW there's no way to force the driver
> > to attach.
> > 
> > > Or is there some way to use a linux driver? Linux says its a realtek
> > > 8187SE.
> > 
> > No way to use the linux driver.
> > 
> > regards,
> > Weongyo Jeong
> > 
> 
> It seems there has been a recent release of a driver for MAC/OSX
> according to this page:
>
>   http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/great-news-regarding-rtl8187se-wifi-module-t3986.html
> 
> perhaps I can persuade them into remaking a freebsd driver, Darwin is
> not that far from BSD right? ;-)

Yes.  I think if we can see sources for MAC/OSX it'd could be portable
to FreeBSD according to the license.

However I tried to download a driver URL to see whether it includes
sources.  All I found was `Installer87se.pkg'; I can't mount .pkg file
because I don't have a laptop Mac OS installed temporarily.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong



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