How to develop a wireless driver?

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 02:28:05 UTC 2015


Hi!

Is it a PCIe NIC?


-a

On 4 September 2015 at 14:22, Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you sure the existing driver doesn’t work? Try adding these two lines to loader.conf:
>
> if_urtwn_load=“YES"
> legal.realtek.license_ack=1
>
> and rebooting. If that doesn’t work, I would be looking at NDIS as your next best option - writing drivers is *hard*(as I have discovered in my own attempts to update the bwn(4) driver).
>
>> On 5 Sep 2015, at 7:16 AM, fmm_07 at openmailbox.org wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello, I have a wireless card that does not work in FreeBSD but in
>> Gnu/Linux with a proprietary firmware (my wireless card is Realtek
>> RTL8188CE), the firmware is rtl8192cfw.bin.
>> My question is: How can I develop a free wireless driver and build it
>> with a custom kernel in FreeBSD?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
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