RTL8192SE WLAN

Anselm Strauss amsibamsi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 11:20:22 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/16/10, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a
> > Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with
> > ndisgen(8). The driver loads and the device is there. On the FreeBSD
> EeePC
> > wiki it says it's a 8191 chip, but when I look at the driver download
> from
> > Asus and dmesg it's reported as 8192. The driver seems to work at least
> in
> > some way since I'm able to scan for networks and get a list. But I cannot
> > connect to a WPA2 network. Association with the network always fails in
> > wpa_supplicant(8).
>
> Maybe there is some kind of timeout, I could send you small patch to test
> it.
> Just post full verbose debug output from wpa_supplicant(8)
>
> Anyway, feel free to test http://www.gitorious.org/NDISulator
>
> > Anyone has some experience?
>
> You are using wpa_supplicant with -D ndis flag, right?
>

Hm, interesting. No, I didn't know this option. Can't find it on the
wpa_supplicant manpage. But I will try it ...

Thanks.


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