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

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Wed Oct 9 20:31:14 UTC 2013


Hi all,
Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Note the noise floor differences.. wonder why that is.

Yes, more measurements etc at:
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/share/man/man4/urtwn.4.REL=current.diff


> Rui ported the uwrtn stuff, right?

It seems others, so I added them:
	To: kevlo at freebsd.org
 	cc: damien at openbsd.org
to ask if they have newer versions code or firmware to test ?

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c?view=log
] Import Kevin Lo's port of urtwn(4) from OpenBSD. urtwn(4) is a driver for the
] Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless cards.
] This driver requires microcode which is available in FreeBSD ports:
] net/urtwn-firmware-kmod.
] Hiren ported the urtwn(4) man page from OpenBSD and Glen just commited a port
] for the firmware.
] Tested by:	kevlo, hiren, gjb

> He may be able to help. The driver is
> recent and its likely there are bugs to shake out.

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/man/man4/urtwn.4?view=markup
    The urtwn driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.9 and FreeBSD 10.0.
    The urtwn driver was written by Damien Bergamini <damien at openbsd.org>.

Also Re. Thomas Mueller's 
> I just happened to be browsing man urtwn in NetBSD-current
> (6.99.23), and Edimax EW-7811Un is listed as supported by this driver.

I See on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD:

/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/sys/
	dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c
	dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwnreg.h
	contrib/dev/urtwn/urtwn-rtl8192cfwT.fw.uu
	contrib/dev/urtwn/urtwn-rtl8192cfwU.fw.uu

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c?view=markup
	$OpenBSD: if_urtwn.c,v 1.16 2011/02/10 17:26:40 jakemsr Exp $ 
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwnreg.h?view=markup
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/contrib/dev/urtwn/urtwn-rtl8192cfwT.fw.uu?view=markup
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/contrib/dev/urtwn/urtwn-rtl8192cfwU.fw.uu?view=markup

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/usb/if_urtwn.c
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/usb/if_urtwn.c?rev=1.32;content-type=text%2Fplain;only_with_tag=MAIN
	$OpenBSD: if_urtwn.c,v 1.32 2013/09/30 05:18:57 jsg Exp $
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/usb/if_urtwnreg.h
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&sektion=4&format=html
Can't find firmware BLOB[s] on openbsd.org site

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?urtwn++NetBSD-current
	/libdata/firmware/if_urtwn/rtl8192cfw.bin
	/libdata/firmware/if_urtwn/rtl8192cfwU.bin
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/usb/if_urtwn.c?only_with_tag=MAIN
	/*	$NetBSD: if_urtwn.c,v 1.25 2013/08/10 21:15:26 jnemeth Exp $	*/
	/*	$OpenBSD: if_urtwn.c,v 1.20 2011/11/26 06:39:33 ckuethe Exp $	*/

Cheers,
Julian
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