urtwn driver for Edimax EW-7811U WLAN nano USB Adapter

[Julian H. Stacey]

Rui Paulo wrote:
> 
> On 2 Oct 2013, at 16:57, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi current@,
> > It seems I need if_urtwn driver for a really miniature WLAN USB stick,
> > & if_urtwn is only in current ?
> > man 4 if_urtwn refers to ports/net/urtwn-firmware-kmod which is missing ?
> 
> 
> This driver was never merged to FreeBSD 9.

OK, Thanks for confirmation.


> Can you use FreeBSD 10 instead?

Yes, easier than building from 9.X I guess (& helps test alpha :-).
I'll fetch from local mirror, per
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-September/044951.html


> The port reference in the man page is wrong. The firmware is now shipped as part of the base system.

Oh nice, easier :-)

> 
> --
> Rui Paulo

Thanks Rui !

PS In case anyone else mailed me off list, please resend,
As I had a disk overflow I checked beyond
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-October/045040.html
& nothing further, which is fine,

Cheers,
Julian
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