On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Dylan Socolobsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I just decided to give OpenBSD 5.5 (amd64) a go in my netbook, > everything is working flawlessly so far, except for the Wireless > Network. I did install "rsu-firmware" which did nothing. > > My netbook has a Realtek RTL8192SE wireless chip, which I can't get to > work with OpenBSD. When running "ifconfig" this is what I get: > > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33144 > priority: 0 > groups: lo > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > lladdr 00:03:0d:fb:20:69 > priority: 0 > groups: egress > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) > status: active > inet6 fe80::203:dff:fefb:2069%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > enc0: flags=0<> > priority: 0 > groups: enc > status: active > pflog0: flags=141<UP,RUNNING,PROMISC> mtu 33144 > priority: 0 > groups: pflog > > So as you can see, I can only see the Ethernet card (re0) which is > working properly via DHCP, however, the Wireless interface is nowhere > to be seen. > > Running "dmesg | grep Realtek" reveals the following: > > "Realtek 8192SE" rev 0x10 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured > > Which leads me to believe that the device is not being properly > recognized by the ACPI Interface. > > Looking at /src/sys/dev/pci/pcidevs_data.h , I found the following: > > { > PCI_VENDOR_REALTEK, PCI_PRODUCT_REALTEK_RTL8192SE, > "8192SE", > }, > > However I could not find any kind of implementation or interface for > the device, all I could find were "if_re_pci.c", "if_rl_pci.c" and > "if_rtw_pci.c" none of which implement the RTL8192SE card. > > What can I do? Is the card not supported at all? Is it just bad > mapping maybe? > > Thanks for your help. >
Disclaimer: Wikipedia is not guaranteed to be up to date and accurate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wireless_drivers That said, I did a further search on google and can't see a definitive mention of that chipset being supported (yet). I've had some experience outfitting my laptops with those cheap USB WIFI sticks. The cost is hardly prohibitive (sometimes under $10) but nailing down the chipset can be a pain. My suggestion: find a readily available one supported by OpenBSD, install whatever firmware is required, and go that route. Good luck. Carl T.
