usb/146054: urtw driver potentially out of date

[Julian Vallis]

>Number:         146054
>Category:       usb
>Synopsis:       urtw driver potentially out of date
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-usb
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 26 07:50:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Julian Vallis
>Release:        8.0 / pfSense 2.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD XXX 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Thu Apr 22 08:52:03 EDT 2010     ermal at FreeBSD_8.0_pfSense_2.0-snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8  i386

>Description:
Problem described and discussed with the pfSense team here:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,24475.0.html

Essentially, the urtw driver seems to have been updated in OpenBSD, and should be incorporated into FreeBSD.

The specific issue is using the Alfa AWUS036H USB WLAN card on pfSense 2.0, which in turn uses FreeBSD 8. The urtw driver is not recognising the vendor of the card, despite OpenBSD man pages for urtw clearly showing support for the card. Given this card is a favourite for airocrack-ng due to it's 500mW/1W radio output, it's a very popular card. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to configure the Alfa AWUS036H USB WLAN using urtw(4) on a FreeBSD 8.0 (or ideally pfSense 2.0) installation.
>Fix:
none at the moment

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