HEADSUP: urtw(4) to be committed soon

[Kevin Lo]

Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Weongyo,

> I would like to commit urtw(4) driver for supporting Realtek's 8187L
> wireless chipset based on USB into HEAD by the end of the week if there
> are no objections.  And the license of files would be as follows that
> AFAIK it's based on OpenBSD's template license file:
> 
> /*-
>  * Copyright (c) 2008 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo at FreeBSD.org>
>  *
>  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
>  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
>  * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
>  *
>  * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
>  * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
>  * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
>  * ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
>  * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
>  * ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
>  * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
>  */
> 
> Because I'm not a lawyer it'd definitely fail to answer about your
> detailed questions.  Just one thing I want to is that it's okay if it's
> enough to use in *BSD, OpenSolaris and etc.  Not want to go into
> troubles.  :-)
> 
> I'm looking for a person to port from USB to NEWUSB and if you want to
> test you can find the sources at:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/urtw_20090119.tar.gz


Works for me, thanks. Though it's quite a bit slower, that's a job
for another day :-)

$ dmesg | grep urtw0
urtw0: <vendor 0x0bda RTL8187_Wireless, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr
2> on uhub0
urtw0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag

$ ifconfig
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0
mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
urtw0: flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT>
metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:40:0c:04:3b:2a
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1500
        ether 00:40:0c:04:3b:2a
        inet 192.168.1.116 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
        ssid MSI channel 11 (2462 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:11:09:0c:2f:91
        country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid
60
        bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5
        protmode CTS

> regards,
> Weongyo Jeong

	Kevin