From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Thu Sep 1 17:35:25 2016 Return-Path: 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 82BD2BCBFD7; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andriyvos@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lf0-f53.google.com (mail-lf0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) (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 3B1E697C; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andriyvos@gmail.com) Received: by mail-lf0-f53.google.com with SMTP id g62so66026327lfe.3; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 10:35:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:to:subject:references:date:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:from:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=2AeNHwMZGQjB/bsXcOHQUr+lMe5QJGNa4R60CxCdCqk=; b=JFFxYD5xwjo0vgR8I8Fn9yNIVlpjpDQZNhHXTSPC2O00bYAtYEZCDiPP+mP6PRPBpZ m/9+fEPc3ajJWgrtUEFpS6FuGFblTnzCCNSr5QHh0epwQyPVnJ76W6SXuM4eqJfzrjsZ AFkGZmbxcnMo3EcN7mn7PsUb3pYwUUlD51YyZkiz4Lcy6QSE+qOjFYObJUTupJYb3LWp XwRQeKPTBMEjVxlO/7mNb/Ipkc6oW8VorV9otCAX4wBw+nb9OCX/3WnuiPHDBdAkgGN/ d4jBKLFRHOo45TZIJE+pY3W/TgmSokMPn6hcpkieGHgCVNEPnXbeZOvG5S0KT1KUurWC kpdg== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwM96TLFDDi63OVDJKq44IYrV+2I5JRTo+Zj2FRglrplH4cX4zy1Ss/8E3CUMoGg7Q== X-Received: by 10.46.32.131 with SMTP id g3mr5102108lji.46.1472747359829; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (host-176-37-109-22.la.net.ua. [176.37.109.22]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k63sm1041861lfe.48.2016.09.01.09.29.18 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" , "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" Subject: urtwn(4) / rtwn(4) drivers are merged - call for testing (Was: RTL8812AU / RTL8821AU driver) References: Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:29:03 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Andriy Voskoboinyk" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 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: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:35:25 -0000 Hi everyone, rtwn(4), urtwn(4) and urtwm (from previous emails) drivers were merged into a single rtwn driver (plus rtwn_usb / rtwn_pci device glue); the code is available on https://github.com/s3erios/rtwn repository. Among bugfixes / code deduplication, there some new features too: 1) multi-vap support (one any wireless interface + one STA interface + any number of monitor mode interfaces). 2) few new sysctls: * dev.rtwn.#.crypto - controls how to use hardware crypto acceleration * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl_selected * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl - selects current 'rate control' algorithm (currently only 'none' and 'net80211' are supported; RTL8192CE needs testing with the last). 3) (incomplete) power management support for RTL8188EU (requires firmware). 4) Short Guard Interval support. It's known to work with RTL8188CUS, RTL8188EU and RTL8821AU; however, it was never tested with RTL8192CE or RTL8812AU. How-to-build: 1) download / checkout the repository. 2) apply 'patch-usbdevs.diff' against '/usr/src' 3) build and install rtwn module: cd $repository/sys/modules/rtwn && make && make install 4) build and install rtwn_usb/rtwn_pci: cd ../rtwn_usb && make && make install cd ../rtwn_pci && make && make install 5) unload previous && load current drivers: kldunload if_urtwn if_rtwn kldload /boot/modules/if_rtwn.ko /boot/modules/if_rtwn_usb.ko /boot/modules/if_rtwn_pci.ko 6) Use.