Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 04:03:49 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can not get Realtek RTL8188CU USB adapter to work on 10.2-BETA1 laptop Message-ID: <20150719033342.L21302@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <mailman.91.1437220802.89455.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.91.1437220802.89455.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 580, Issue 6, Message: 6 On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:22:28 -0400 William Bulley <web@umich.edu> wrote: > I have a new laptop with an Intel core i7-5600U CPU running 10.2-BETA1 FreeBSD. > > I tried following the directions here: > > https://vzaigrin.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/how-to-setup-usb-wifi-on-raspberry-pi-with-freebsd/ > > and I tried the directions in the "% man 4 urtwn" man page: > > To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your > kernel configuration file: > > device ehci > device uhci > device ohci > device usb > device urtwn > device wlan > > Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the > following line in loader.conf(5): > > if_urtwn_load="YES" > > In both cases, place the following line in loader.conf(5) to acknowledge > the firmware license (see below): > > legal.realtek.license_ack=1 > > [[I did both: rebuilt kernel AND added two lines to the /boot/loader.conf file]] What Kevin said, I expect, but I'm a sucker for a splendid bug report :) It does say 'Alternatively', and I'd expect to see something in dmesg about failure to load the module, being already in kernel. Which may not matter here, but I'd expect kldstat -v to show urtwn in kernel. cheers, Ian
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