urtwn(4) / rtwn(4) drivers are merged - call for testing (Was: RTL8812AU / RTL8821AU driver)

Andriy Voskoboinyk avos at freebsd.org
Sun Sep 4 23:30:48 UTC 2016


Sun, 04 Sep 2016 11:37:19 +0300 було написано Marcus von Appen  
<mva at freebsd.org>:

Try to add your vendor / device into sys/dev/rtwn/pci/rtwn_pci_attach.h
(sys/dev/rtwn/if_rtwn.c for current driver in HEAD):
	{ 0x10ec, 0x8176, "Realtek RTL8188CE", RTWN_CHIP_RTL8192CE },
+	{ <vendor>, <device>, "Realtek RTL8192CE", RTWN_CHIP_RTL8192CE },
	{ 0, 0, NULL, RTWN_CHIP_MAX_PCI }

> On, Thu Sep 01, 2016, Andriy Voskoboinyk wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> rtwn(4), urtwn(4) and urtwm (from previous emails) drivers were merged
>> into a
>> single rtwn driver (plus rtwn_usb / rtwn_pci device glue); the code is
>> available on https://github.com/s3erios/rtwn repository. Among bugfixes  
>> /
>> code deduplication, there some new features too:
>>
>> 1) multi-vap support (one any wireless interface + one STA interface +
>> any number of monitor mode interfaces).
>> 2) few new sysctls:
>>   * dev.rtwn.#.crypto - controls how to use hardware crypto acceleration
>>   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl_selected
>>   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl - selects current 'rate control' algorithm
>> (currently only 'none' and 'net80211' are supported; RTL8192CE needs
>> testing
>> with the last).
>
> I got a RTL8192CE - what should I look for, when using net80211?
>
> Cheers
> Marcus


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