Realtek RTL8191SE/RTL8192SE WiFi chipset

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 09:02 -0400, paul belair wrote:
> FreeBSD comp2.mywlan.ca 8.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #1: Mon May 16
> 10:05:47 EDT 2011     root at comp2.mywlan.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/amd64  amd64
> 
> 
> Trying to build a driver for this device.
> >
> > none2 at pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x815110ec chip=0x817210ec rev=0x10
> hdr=0x00
> >    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
> >    device     = 'Realtek RTL8191SE wireless LAN 802.11N PCI-E NIC
> (RTL8191SE ?)'
> >    class      = network
> >    bar   [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x2000, size 256, enabled
> >    bar   [14] = type Memory, range 32, base 0x94600000, size 16384,
> enabled
> >    cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
> >    cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
> >    cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint max data 128(256) link
> x1(x1)
> > ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected
> > ecap 0002[140] = VC 1 max VC0
> > ecap 0003[160] = Serial 1 885522feff4ce000
> 
> The windows drivers are missing the firmware. Explained in Suse forums.
> 
> So I need to build this driver from Realtek
> >
> > RTL8191SE-VA2
> > From:
> > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Downloads=true
> 
> comp5# make
> > "Makefile", line 11: Need an operator
> > "Makefile", line 14: Missing dependency operator
> > "Makefile", line 18: Need an operator
> > "Makefile", line 21: Missing dependency operator
> > "Makefile", line 22: warning: duplicate script for target "ifeq" ignored

My best guess is that you have downloaded the source for Linux, and are
trying to compile it on FreeBSD?  That won't work I'm afraid, they are
entirely different operating systems.

I don't believe that Realtek currently provide public documentation or a
FreeBSD driver for this chipset, so I suspect your only option right now
is to wait for somebody to write a driver from scratch for it.  I'm not
aware of any efforts to do this at the moment.

FWIW, I have several samples of this chipset that I could potentially
provide to somebody willing to write a driver.

Gavin
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