TP-LINK TL-WN821N
Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina
cpm at fbsd.es
Thu Jul 10 07:14:00 UTC 2014
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:05:24 +0800
Kevin Lo <kevlo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 03:42:23PM +0200, Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:02:29 +0800
> > Kevin Lo <kevlo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 12:45:50PM +0200, Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:22:20 +0800
> > > > Kevin Lo <kevlo at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:16:12PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 7 July 2014 12:10, Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 11:48:36 -0700
> > > > > > > Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >> I'd just look at porting over the openbsd driver. There's no 11n
> > > > > > >> support in the openbsd code though!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > That's bad, I hope that the 802.11n protocol will be implemented since it was released in 2009.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What do you recommend to do?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd be happy if the driver showed up from OpenBSD. We can always try
> > > > > > to add 11n support.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm sorry, I don't have much else to say at the moment and as my day
> > > > > > job is decidedly not wireless, I can't be much help. :(
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to get D-Link DWA-160 rev. A1 usb wifi adapter working with
> > > > > latest OpenBSD snapshot (2014/07/06). It seems to me that there's a
> > > > > problem with otus(4).
> > > > >
> > > > > dmesg:
> > > > > otus0 at uhub1 port 7 "ATHER USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/1.07 addr 2
> > > > > otus0: MAC/BBP AR9170, RF AR9104, MIMO 2T2R, address 00:22:b0:57:fc:dc
> > > > >
> > > > > ifconfig otus0 scan doesn't yield any result.
> > > > >
> > > > > # ifconfig otus0 scan
> > > > > otus0: flags=28802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NOINET6> mtu 1500
> > > > > lladdr 00:22:b0:57:fc:dc
> > > > > priority: 4
> > > > > groups: wlan
> > > > > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
> > > > > status: no network
> > > > > ieee80211: nwid ""
> > > > > none
> > > > > #
> > > > >
> > > > > > -a
> > > > >
> > > > > Kevin
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > OpenBSD doesn't support 802.11n yet, but some of this cards run in 11g mode for now. So this could be chew better if we work together with them.
> > >
> > > All OpenBSD wireless drivers don't support .11n yet.
> > > What I mean is that driver is not stable. At least for D-Link DWA-160 rev. A1.
> > >
> > > > Anyway if you don't mind I'll send you some outputs from TL-WN821N.
> > >
> > > No, I don't mind. :-) Thanks.
> > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > --
> > > > Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es>
> > >
> > > Kevin
> >
> > I'm testing a TL-WN821N v4 device.
>
> Wait a minute. You mentioned OpenBSD otus(4), I thought we were talking
> about the Atheros AR9170 chipset, not the Realtek RTL8192CU chip.
Oops, I forgot mentioned that v4 use the Realtek RTL8192CU chipset.
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN821N_v4
>
> > # uname -a
> > FreeBSD box.underbuild.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r268070: Tue Jul 1 14:05:40 CEST 2014 root at box.underbuild.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROD i386
> >
> > # dmesg | grep urtwn0
> > urtwn0: <vendor 0x0bda product 0x8178, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 3> on usbus2
> > urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8192CU, RF 6052 2T2R
> > urtwn0: timeout waiting for firmware readiness
> >
> > # usbconfig -u 2 -a 3 dump_device_desc
> > ugen2.3: <product 0x8178 vendor 0x0bda> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)
> >
> > bLength = 0x0012
> > bDescriptorType = 0x0001
> > bcdUSB = 0x0200
> > bDeviceClass = 0x0000
> > bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
> > bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
> > bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
> > idVendor = 0x0bda
> > idProduct = 0x8178
> > bcdDevice = 0x0200
> > iManufacturer = 0x0001 <retrieving string failed>
> > iProduct = 0x0002 <retrieving string failed>
> > iSerialNumber = 0x0003 <retrieving string failed>
> > bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
> >
> > # ifconfig urtwn0
> > urtwn0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> > ether 10:fe:ed:27:f6:5d
> > nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
> > status: associated
> >
> > I noticed that wireless never goes up. Not much luck here, I get the error:
> > urtwn0: timeout waiting for firmware readiness
>
> Ok, I know where the problem lies. Please try this patch, thanks.
>
> Index: sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c
> ===================================================================
> --- sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c (revision 268479)
> +++ sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtwn.c (working copy)
> @@ -2281,9 +2281,6 @@ urtwn_fw_reset(struct urtwn_softc *sc)
> }
> /* Force 8051 reset. */
> urtwn_write_2(sc, R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN, reg & ~R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN_CPUEN);
> - urtwn_write_2(sc, R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN,
> - urtwn_read_2(sc, R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN) |
> - R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN_CPUEN);
> }
>
> static void
> @@ -2383,6 +2380,11 @@ urtwn_load_firmware(struct urtwn_softc *sc)
> urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_MCUFWDL, 0);
> }
>
> + if (!(sc->chip & URTWN_CHIP_88E)) {
> + urtwn_write_2(sc, R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN,
> + urtwn_read_2(sc, R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN) |
> + R92C_SYS_FUNC_EN_CPUEN);
> + }
> urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_MCUFWDL,
> urtwn_read_1(sc, R92C_MCUFWDL) | R92C_MCUFWDL_EN);
> urtwn_write_1(sc, R92C_MCUFWDL + 2,
I'm just rebuilding the kernel.
--
Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es>
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