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Date:      Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:28:04 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com>
Cc:        fmm_07@openmailbox.org,  "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to develop a wireless driver?
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmomA-YRWAyk9g40RLJWiFpkkx2Lfvnxrp%2B1cekpS=JpahA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi!

Is it a PCIe NIC?


-a

On 4 September 2015 at 14:22, Felix Friedlander <felixphew0@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> Are you sure the existing driver doesn=E2=80=99t work? Try adding these t=
wo 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 a=
s 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
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