From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 22:22:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F481106564A for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939188FC12 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so3271711wer.13 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of kob6558@gmail.com designates 10.180.106.33 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.106.33; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of kob6558@gmail.com designates 10.180.106.33 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=kob6558@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=kob6558@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.106.33]) by 10.180.106.33 with SMTP id gr1mr36394851wib.6.1327962152605 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:22:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eiHF2RMQ1xVvJA54OnlpHJzDV0DHusKqToaA2bD1Uwo=; b=C4DUgShypLeHYifCHE0Z2GI4M5Yuf8rpoOapnvz12XTg8ls5amPTgmmT4pJGYKSfR3 cahe6wrDHZSVoJWehVdPnDnn6FIlSVrPvkVXWtOTYoT8zwVXLD4Pl118DKqk+vkY1rP9 eK8JplpPeNWsaEFfMcqEZtlkIK9N26EaIRLFI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.106.33 with SMTP id gr1mr30234835wib.6.1327960445679; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.101.196 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:54:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:54:05 -0800 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Luan Hospodarsky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8188ce driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:22:34 -0000 On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Luan Hospodarsky wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > Thanks for the reply, > > So is there some work about it? > It is great! If you find anything, let me know! > Thanks again. > > Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:00:43 -0800 > Subject: Re: Realtek 8188ce driver > From: adrian@freebsd.org > To: ironfall_blindguardian@hotmail.com > CC: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org > > Hi, > > I think there's been some recent work to get this chipset support into sh= ape but I don't know wehre it lives or whether the driver is in a workable = setup. > > Does anyone know anything further? > > > > Adrian > > On 29 January 2012 13:24, LuX - I like you wrote: > > > > Hello, I'm Luan and I'm a newer FreeBSD Lover. > > I am having a problem and I have found no answer anywhere, but I hope you= can give me a light. > > My notebook has an integrated wireless card (Realtek 8188ce) and the Real= tek site provides drivers only for Windows and Linux. > > I had read the FreeBSD manual, asked for help in the forum and in the IRC= ##freebsd, but unfortunately nobody could help me. > > My conclusion is that such driver does not exist in FreeBSD. > > Is there any projects to port such driver from Linux (I guess OpenBSD has= that driver as well, so the porting could be less painful) or some compati= ble driver to this device? > > Thanks in advance. > > --- > > Luan Hospodarsky > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0_______________________________________________ 1. You could try ndis. It did not work for me, but a patch to ndis looks like it may have fixed the problem. 2. The other option is to replace the card. What brand of laptop is it? Levovo locks down the wireless and will not boot with any card but one they sold. I believe HP does the same. I had to buy a card with the Lenovo PCI ID to get it to work. I found it from a place that was in Germany, but the card was shipped from Tel Aviv. It cost about 3 times what a generic Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 would have cost. :-( You might be able to re-write the PCI ID on a standard Intel card, but I could not figure out how to do it. You can also patch the BIOS, but that make future BIOS upgrades a real problem. 3. Write a driver --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com