Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:16:54 -0500 From: fmm_07@openmailbox.org To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: How to develop a wireless =?UTF-8?Q?driver=3F?= Message-ID: <9723f27f8adc7024e07241b51fe3fafc@openmailbox.org>
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Hello, I have a wireless card that does not work in FreeBSD but in Gnu/Linux with a proprietary firmware (my wireless card is Realtek RTL8188CE), the firmware is rtl8192cfw.bin. My question is: How can I develop a free wireless driver and build it with a custom kernel in FreeBSD? Thanks for your help. From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Fri Sep 4 21:23:03 2015 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014249CB23C for <freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from felixphew0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-x22f.google.com (mail-pa0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8633C8D for <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:23:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from felixphew0@gmail.com) Received: by pacfv12 with SMTP id fv12so35598306pac.2 for <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:23:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=J44Hvw/r32xZwiKRNDXHDdv5u5Ecwoi5R82Mkb81nOA=; b=NtO1YUPOkPS6VW2HSwkwojw6REWTeCbAm8YSlA68+Uy22RFYOCAOfCT8hlGFDPp0vE OeRFWb4QQEg2X+U5F/t/Hb0cv7vijMXlZQef66/OIECdiZfbalJgNsFuQRYBI1NNeok1 mYQmhBeVhtrUYj0Fya/ixj8ivqgpV23YjfhK3KGUIgiCH6buISLTKkioYNTQ9ENXiLNa tqpE2ieQ2ka/3qOIlI3QaVKQm4BBg0AshdsD95L+d4OihoMtUTueHvTiDkfYXVqe//Nv sCWJQi0e3kfRoL9lhBVh3pQXzf7BFpq1+RmkAwgvtqVpCYDddc042xnSBU37+3QiCh4S 1IBg== X-Received: by 10.68.234.167 with SMTP id uf7mr12495993pbc.51.1441401782386; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (c211-30-51-180.frank3.vic.optusnet.com.au. [211.30.51.180]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y5sm3571826pdc.4.2015.09.04.14.23.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.0 \(3093\)) Subject: Re: How to develop a wireless driver? From: Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9723f27f8adc7024e07241b51fe3fafc@openmailbox.org> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 07:22:57 +1000 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <CBEB78CC-1A99-4244-A32D-188E140CB3CF@gmail.com> References: <9723f27f8adc7024e07241b51fe3fafc@openmailbox.org> To: fmm_07@openmailbox.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3093) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." <freebsd-wireless.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-wireless>, <mailto:freebsd-wireless-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-wireless-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless>, <mailto:freebsd-wireless-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 21:23:03 -0000 Are you sure the existing driver doesn=E2=80=99t work? Try adding these = two lines to loader.conf: if_urtwn_load=3D=E2=80=9CYES" legal.realtek.license_ack=3D1 and rebooting. If that doesn=E2=80=99t work, I would be looking at NDIS = as your next best option - writing drivers is *hard*(as I have = discovered in my own attempts to update the bwn(4) driver). > On 5 Sep 2015, at 7:16 AM, fmm_07@openmailbox.org wrote: >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hello, I have a wireless card that does not work in FreeBSD but in > Gnu/Linux with a proprietary firmware (my wireless card is Realtek > RTL8188CE), the firmware is rtl8192cfw.bin. > My question is: How can I develop a free wireless driver and build it > with a custom kernel in FreeBSD? >=20 > Thanks for your help.=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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