From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 16:01:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752EF106564A for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6908FC08 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws11 with SMTP id 11so3706692vws.13 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:01:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MpMZd7hS4vh5p3pyDVUg6/KKsOkXSWKzMXiIOUYndQo=; b=GoELd3Z5fbRRF/e2tGINJHG8Mpeu7i/3PlA0zUHdHIiFNL0v6S0oHaRm8IIGs/zPL/ 46vdHGJmd/MX90XgCSwI4uL7FA3vRiShqKBygqFwX3+0q8m+uPz1Yb5JAEkuumDQOBks Bqta4zAgqrE5QqYjqH/8W+uVVmy125MMoCc5o= Received: by 10.52.26.14 with SMTP id h14mr13436513vdg.132.1320940917571; Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:01:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from schism.local (75-146-225-65-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [75.146.225.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ey9sm12698530vdc.19.2011.11.10.08.01.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:01:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBBF572.9010805@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:01:54 -0500 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <4EBB6787.8000300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgear WNA1000N USB wlan device X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:01:58 -0000 On 11/10/11 10:35 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Glen Barber wrote: > >> Netgear has these neat little USB micro wireless network adapters[1] >> that one could plug in and forget about without fear of, for example, >> breaking the device. >> >> Said devices are really nice for those of us without supported >> integrated wireless chipsets, such as those found in late 2010 MacBooks, >> or anything manufactured by Dell recently... >> >> The only problem is that the device itself is not supported. >> >> The device appears to have a RealTek RTL8188CUS chipset (vendor 0846, >> device 9041), which, without knowing much more about the device, I >> suspect could work with the urtw(4) driver. However, my feeble attempts >> at simulating support for the device ended, well, as expected. :) > > OpenBSD has a urtwn driver. No idea whether anyone is working on a port. > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=urtwn&sektion=4&format=html > Ooh, that's good news. Thanks! -- Glen Barber