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

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Tue Oct 8 17:42:21 UTC 2013


Hi Alfred & cc current.

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 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?

I too am seeing
	urtwn0: timeout waiting for checksum report
sometimes I can scan & sometimes not, 
(whereas with a run0: stick I have no problem)
I've not got as far as trying to move data.
I'd appreciate any patches you have Alfred

Cheers,
Julian
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