TP-LINK TL-WN821N
Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina
cpm at fbsd.es
Wed Jul 9 13:42:44 UTC 2014
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:02:29 +0800
Kevin Lo <kevlo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 12:45:50PM +0200, Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:22:20 +0800
> > Kevin Lo <kevlo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:16:12PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 7 July 2014 12:10, Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:48:36 -0700
> > > > > Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> I'd just look at porting over the openbsd driver. There's no 11n
> > > > >> support in the openbsd code though!
> > > > >
> > > > > That's bad, I hope that the 802.11n protocol will be implemented since it was released in 2009.
> > > > >
> > > > > What do you recommend to do?
> > > >
> > > > I'd be happy if the driver showed up from OpenBSD. We can always try
> > > > to add 11n support.
> > > >
> > > > I'm sorry, I don't have much else to say at the moment and as my day
> > > > job is decidedly not wireless, I can't be much help. :(
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get D-Link DWA-160 rev. A1 usb wifi adapter working with
> > > latest OpenBSD snapshot (2014/07/06). It seems to me that there's a
> > > problem with otus(4).
> > >
> > > dmesg:
> > > otus0 at uhub1 port 7 "ATHER USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/1.07 addr 2
> > > otus0: MAC/BBP AR9170, RF AR9104, MIMO 2T2R, address 00:22:b0:57:fc:dc
> > >
> > > ifconfig otus0 scan doesn't yield any result.
> > >
> > > # ifconfig otus0 scan
> > > otus0: flags=28802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NOINET6> mtu 1500
> > > lladdr 00:22:b0:57:fc:dc
> > > priority: 4
> > > groups: wlan
> > > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
> > > status: no network
> > > ieee80211: nwid ""
> > > none
> > > #
> > >
> > > > -a
> > >
> > > Kevin
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > OpenBSD doesn't support 802.11n yet, but some of this cards run in 11g mode for now. So this could be chew better if we work together with them.
>
> All OpenBSD wireless drivers don't support .11n yet.
> What I mean is that driver is not stable. At least for D-Link DWA-160 rev. A1.
>
> > Anyway if you don't mind I'll send you some outputs from TL-WN821N.
>
> No, I don't mind. :-) Thanks.
>
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es>
>
> Kevin
I'm testing a TL-WN821N v4 device.
# uname -a
FreeBSD box.underbuild.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r268070: Tue Jul 1 14:05:40 CEST 2014 root at box.underbuild.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROD i386
# dmesg | grep urtwn0
urtwn0: <vendor 0x0bda product 0x8178, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 3> on usbus2
urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8192CU, RF 6052 2T2R
urtwn0: timeout waiting for firmware readiness
# usbconfig -u 2 -a 3 dump_device_desc
ugen2.3: <product 0x8178 vendor 0x0bda> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)
bLength = 0x0012
bDescriptorType = 0x0001
bcdUSB = 0x0200
bDeviceClass = 0x0000
bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
idVendor = 0x0bda
idProduct = 0x8178
bcdDevice = 0x0200
iManufacturer = 0x0001 <retrieving string failed>
iProduct = 0x0002 <retrieving string failed>
iSerialNumber = 0x0003 <retrieving string failed>
bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
# ifconfig urtwn0
urtwn0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
ether 10:fe:ed:27:f6:5d
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
status: associated
I noticed that wireless never goes up. Not much luck here, I get the error:
urtwn0: timeout waiting for firmware readiness
--
Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es>
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