Greetings, all. I recently set out to create a wireless gateway, out of one of my servers. I ran across a PCIe card that had the Realtek 8188CE chip on it, and upon further investigation, indicated it was a pretty capable chip indeed. So I looked in hopes of finding FreeBSD supported it. While not listed in HARDWARE.txt anywhere. I did find quite a bit of evidence that it was indeed supported (via rtwn(4)). So I ordered one. It just arrived, and I loaded in loader.conf(5): if_rtwn_load="YES"
But further installation seems to indicate that (at least in RELENG_11) that the rtwn(4) driver is (only?) intended for dongles (USB), and not the PCIe version(s) of the RTL8188CE chipset. Is this true? If so, is the work on CURRENT (12), which *does* appear to support the RTL8188CE, (back)portable to 11? Normally, I'd find it fairly trivial to back port the changes, but I see what appears to be a complete re-organization to the network infrastructure where drivers are concerned. I'm not on 12, and can't make the jump yet. So here's hoping. Thank you for all your time, and consideration. --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
