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Subject: Re: RealTek RTL8192E/RTL8192SE Wireless Support
To: Stephen Albright <salbright.fbsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
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On 06/13/2018 17:31, Stephen Albright wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I have a Samsung NP-N140 with a RTL8192E card and I am having difficulty
> with it.  I am running -current because if I read the man pages correctly,
> only 12-Current has the driver in rtwn (from the rtwn(4) man page).  So, I
> built a custom kernel per the man pages:


out of curiosity have you attempted to boot 12-CURRENT with the stock 
GENERIC kernel and attempt to load the kernel module by hand or via 
/etc/rc.conf?

for example you could create this line in /etc/rc.conf:
kld_list="rtwn.ko"

then verify it is loaded after reboot by running "kldstat".

cheers,
-pete

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Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
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