run vs urtwn

Felix Friedlander felixphew0 at gmail.com
Sun May 3 21:30:51 UTC 2015


If you are wanting to purchase an adapter, any of those 3 would be fine. However, have you considered using your builtin NIC with ndis(4)? [See section 12.5.1.1 of the FreeBSD Handbook][1] for instructions, or reply to this email if you need help.

[1]:	https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html#config-network-ndis

> On 3 May 2015, at 10:42 pm, Gour <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:
> 
> After resolving some issue I'm preparing to fully migrate from (openSUSE)
> Linux to Free/PC-BSD and looking for advice in regard to support for USB Wifi
> adapters.
> 
> My netbook has integrated RTL8188CE chipset which, afaict, is not supported
> under FreeBSD.
> 
> From before I have D-Link's DWA-125 USB adapter which works, but it's a
> little bulky in comparison with newer mini/nano adapters and after some
> research I've arrived to the following list of adapters which are easy to get
> here:
> 
> 1) Asus USB-N10
> 
> 2) Trendnet TEW-649UB
> 
> 3) Edimax EW-7811UN
> 
> According to the list at
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/hardware.html#support
> 
> 1) & 2) use  'rsu' driver while Edimax is supported by 'urtwn'.
> 
> What would you recommend as the best option?
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gour
> 
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