D-Link DWA-131 A1 (Realtek RTL8191SU) not working

[Thomas Mueller]

from Benjamin Woods:

> I am trying to get my D-Link DWA-131 A1 working, with some success but no
> network connectivity.

> It shows up in my usb list with device id 07d1:3303. The driver pages
> suggest this should be working with the rsu(4) driver and potentially
> the rsu-rtl8712fw firmware, according to these:
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rsu&sektion=4
> http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20101216231634
> https://wikidevi.com/wiki/D-Link_DWA-131_rev_A1

> I have added the following to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted:
> legal.realtek.license_ack=1
> rsu-rtl8712fw_load="YES"

> It shows up in ifconfig, and even scans and finds wireless access points. I
> have my WPA ssid and psk details for my access point stored in
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. I can see from ifconfig that it is trying to
> associate with the correct access point ssid and do DHCP, but it never
> obtains an IP address.

> Has anyone had this issue before? Anyone know how can I go about
> troubleshooting this further?


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:08:37PM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
> I'm pretty sure.  See OpenBSD cvs log:
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=128897633210060&w=2

> I'll be fixing rsu(4), thanks.

I have the same Realtek RTL8191SU chip with Hiro H50191 USB wireless adapter, can't get it to work.

So I too want to test the new fix.  Will it be for 10.1-STABLE or HEAD?  I use mostly HEAD but have also installed 10.0-STABLE.

I also notice change in re(4) driver, want to test that for both FreeBSD and OpenBSD 5.6 bsd.rd .


Motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER. 

Ethernet is Realtek (re): good with NetBSD, Linux and Haiku, (Free,Open and DragonFly)BSD bug out.

Only Internet connection for FreeBSD is Hiro H50191 USB-stick wireless adapter, chipset RTL8191SU, device rsu.

Sometimes it connects.  Running ifconfig (by itself), I get, whether connection is working or not,

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
rsu0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
	options=1<RXCSUM>
	ether 00:13:33:a2:86:f0
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
	status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether 00:13:33:a2:86:f0
	inet 192.168.0.102 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
	status: associated
	ssid Maclura_pomifera channel 8 (2447 MHz 11g) bssid a0:f3:c1:f9:39:7a
	country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
	AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan
	bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS
	roaming MANUAL

Looks good, but running host on a valid domain, such as
host bluegrass.net
gives me

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


I am in NetBSD-current amd64 now, use NetBSD to update FreeBSD src, ports and doc trees with subversion.

Tom