How to develop a wireless driver?

Fernando fmm_07 at openmailbox.org
Sat Sep 5 04:56:25 UTC 2015


Hi 

Adrian: I don't know, where can I search that? 

Felix: I'm not sure, I will do it, How to use NDIS? (I know the  chapter in  the handbook just  don't know how to use it)On Sep 4, 2015 9:28 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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