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Date:      Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:38:03 +0100
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        paul belair <paulfrottawa@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek RTL8191SE/RTL8192SE WiFi chipset
Message-ID:  <1311082684.3848.4.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <CAH%2Bv3W13rJMcaoecMy7Yc3=4kk89uunNzKVeuWZDqQU=CB47uQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 09:02 -0400, paul belair wrote:
> FreeBSD comp2.mywlan.ca 8.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #1: Mon May=
 16
> 10:05:47 EDT 2011     root@comp2.mywlan.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/amd64  am=
d64
>=20
>=20
> Trying to build a driver for this device.
> >
> > none2@pci0:3:0:0: class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x815110ec chip=3D0x817210ec =
rev=3D0x10
> hdr=3D0x00
> >    vendor     =3D 'Realtek Semiconductor'
> >    device     =3D 'Realtek RTL8191SE wireless LAN 802.11N PCI-E NIC
> (RTL8191SE ?)'
> >    class      =3D network
> >    bar   [10] =3D type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x2000, size 256, enabl=
ed
> >    bar   [14] =3D type Memory, range 32, base 0x94600000, size 16384,
> enabled
> >    cap 01[40] =3D powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
> >    cap 05[50] =3D MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
> >    cap 10[70] =3D PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint max data 128(256) link
> x1(x1)
> > ecap 0001[100] =3D AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected
> > ecap 0002[140] =3D VC 1 max VC0
> > ecap 0003[160] =3D Serial 1 885522feff4ce000
>=20
> The windows drivers are missing the firmware. Explained in Suse forums.
>=20
> So I need to build this driver from Realtek
> >
> > RTL8191SE-VA2
> > From:
> > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Downloads=3Dtrue
>=20
> comp5# make
> > "Makefile", line 11: Need an operator
> > "Makefile", line 14: Missing dependency operator
> > "Makefile", line 18: Need an operator
> > "Makefile", line 21: Missing dependency operator
> > "Makefile", line 22: warning: duplicate script for target "ifeq" ignore=
d

My best guess is that you have downloaded the source for Linux, and are
trying to compile it on FreeBSD?  That won't work I'm afraid, they are
entirely different operating systems.

I don't believe that Realtek currently provide public documentation or a
FreeBSD driver for this chipset, so I suspect your only option right now
is to wait for somebody to write a driver from scratch for it.  I'm not
aware of any efforts to do this at the moment.

FWIW, I have several samples of this chipset that I could potentially
provide to somebody willing to write a driver.

Gavin
--=20
Gavin Atkinson
FreeBSD committer and bugmeister
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