On 2022-12-02, Heppler, J. Scott <shep...@spectrum.net> wrote: > I'm shopping for a faster (300mbps +) PCIe wireless card. Although I'm > leaning intel, realtek's base firmware is an advantage. > V2 of the TP-LINK TL-WN881ND uses rtl8192ee chipset which was in the > separate sysutils/firmware builds: > > @comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.2 2018/09/21 09:49:45 sthen Exp $ > firmware/rtwn-license > firmware/rtwn-rtl8188efw > firmware/rtwn-rtl8192cfwU > firmware/rtwn-rtl8192cfwU_B > firmware/rtwn-rtl8192eefw > firmware/rtwn-rtl8723befw_36 > firmware/rtwn-rtl8723fw > firmware/rtwn-rtl8723fw_B > > > Recent current ls /etc/firwmare | grep rtwn: > > rtwn-license rtwn-rtl8192cU rtwn-rtl8723 > rtwn-rtl8188e rtwn-rtl8192cU_B rtwn-rtl8723_B > > Would a rtl8192ee chipset be supported?
It's not clear. Though it's listed in rtwn(4), the actual driver didn't use the rtl8192eefw file (probably hitting a fallback case and using rtl8192cU_B). 8192ee doesn't show up in the dm...@openbsd.org logs. I wouldn't buy one and expect it to definitely work. Also note the caveats section of rtwn(4), if it _does_ work it will not be particularly quick. If by 300mbps+ you mean you actually want to get 300Mb+ TCP throughput then I think your options are the newer intel devices (iwm, iwx) or 11ac bwfm, but iwm/iwx are likely much easier to find. athn is likely to do better than rtwn but probably not 300+. > There are a plethora a cheap 1200mbps cards with 8821ce chips. > Is there inclinations/efforts to add support? AFAIK the next main target for wifi is ath11k (in particular WCN6855 which is used in various recent laptops including X13s). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
