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

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Sun Oct 6 17:24:12 UTC 2013


On 10/6/13 8:21 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> I wrote Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:28:43 +0200
>> 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 :-)
> I'm happy to report with 10.0-ALPHA4 /boot/loader.conf if_urtwn_load="YES"
> `ifconfig wlan0 scan` works OK. Thanks :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Julian

Cool!

I have a g4 tibook 12in with an if_bwn that doesn't really work at all.

I got one of these (if_urtwn) and it works enough to download about a 
meg or so before the watchdog kicks in and I have to ifconfig down/up it 
to get it to respond again.

I even have a patch pending to add the usb identifier for this.

Is there someone I can provide debug information for to help resolve this?

-- 
Alfred Perlstein



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