Realtek 8187B wireless urtw(4)

[Weongyo Jeong]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 04:33:04PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> I bought a new Wireles USB device, using todays -CURRENT it will not
> attach to urtw.
> I am in need of some help.
> what are the steps I need to take to add the relevant device ID's to usbdevs?
> 
> usbdevs -v no longer works in FreeBSD -CURRENT
> 
> I was able to extract the following info from OpenBSD 4.5
> 
>  usbdevs -v
> Controller /dev/usb0:
> addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000),
> Intel(0x8086), rev 1.00
>  port 1 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1,
> RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter(0x8189), Realtek(0x0bda), rev 2.00,
> iSerialNumber 00e04c000001
> 
> here is a link to the Card I bought
> 
> http://www.alibaba.com/product/tw102499076-217620669-100648643/High_Power_500mW_WiFi_USB_Adapter.html
> 
> Thank you in advance

It looks your product ID is already in urtw(4) match lists so I think
the following commands could help you.

	# cd sys/modules/usb/urtw
	# make
	# kldload ./if_urtw.ko

then plug-ins your device.  However what you should know is that
the status of supporting 8187B chipset is in the experimental and 8187B
Rev B and D doesn't tested.  In addition it looks there are problems on
8187B Rev E.  usbdevs(8) isn't no more supported in CURRENT so please
use usbconfig(8) instead of it.

Please let me know if you encounter problems to work with it.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong