On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 06:05:46 Ramiro Aceves wrote: > El 8/2/24 a las 16:48, Nat Sloss escribió: > > Hi, > > > > There's a little more required to add support for the FTV variant judging > > by changes made to openbsd's if_urtwn.c. > > > > There's new firware that needs to be uploaded to the device. And new > > power on and rssi functions (It seems judging by the changes they've > > made it some what is similar to the 8188EUS). > > > > I'm going to see if I can get one of these adaptors on ebay. > > > > I't will be awhile though before I try to get it working. > > > > This is best done on the new wifi stack, so I doubt it will get > > backported to -10. > > > > In the meantime if you search for an 8192eu variant that will work with > > -10 and -9. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Nat > > Hello Nat, > > Thanks for your great explanation, I understand. I then abandon the > tests with the 8188FTV and wait for your improvements. They will be > appreciated. I cannot fix anything, the driver world seems to be a hell! > :-) > > I have just received today from Amazon a TL-WN725N USB WIFI adaptor and > it just work in the raspberry Pi Zero W: > > [ 1.710793] urtwn0 at uhub0 port 1 > [ 1.710793] urtwn0: Realtek (0x0bda) 802.11n NIC (0x8179), rev > 2.00/0.00, addr 2 > [ 1.770890] urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R, address > e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c > [ 1.770890] urtwn0: 1 rx pipe, 2 tx pipes > > > > netbsd-raspa# ifconfig > urtwn0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ssid MiFibra-3422 nwkey > 65536:"",0xc81111000336c6e2b40b047cd2f5ef44,"","" > powersave off > bssid 60:8d:26:32:34:24 chan 1 > address: e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM54 mode 11g) > status: active > inet6 fe80::e6fa:c4ff:fe52:ac4c%urtwn0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x1 > inet 192.168.1.230/24 broadcast 192.168.1.255 flags 0 > lo0: flags=0x8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33176 > status: active > inet6 ::1/128 flags 0x20<NODAD> > inet6 fe80::1%lo0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x2 > inet 127.0.0.1/8 flags 0 > bwfm0: flags=0x8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ssid "" nwkey 65536:"","","","" > powersave off > address: b8:27:eb:ed:85:47 > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect > status: no network > netbsd-raspa# > > I have also the same problem that I had with the chineese 8188FTV, as > soon I connect it to the raspberry pi it reboots inmediately. In the > next reboot it works fine. It occurs the same in another Zero W that I > own with Raspbian and a different power supply. So I doubt that the > culprit is the power supply. The Zero W seems to be a very flaky device > in terms of power supply. > A powered hub should fix that, when a device is plugged directly into the raspberry pis usb (IIRC only 300mA is available) it can cause reboots.
> I am going to test it during several days to see if it works better than > the flaky bwfm driver for the built in WIFI. > > I do not know if I have to disable the bwfm driver to avoid any > interaction or I can leave it as is. You shouldn't have to disable bwfm(4) just dont bring up it's interface. > > Thanks so much. > Ramiro. Best regards, Nat
