Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:07:20 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Luan Hospodarsky <ironfall_blindguardian@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8188ce driver Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sqpit70hD852aApwoSqvBwpvwnKMVADZoWZz=GEn77nw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY169-W74B595F062D6C5D4066BA0E38D0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY169-W383D122EB78512C655FF58E38C0@phx.gbl> <CAJ-VmokJYMgWwVuLv_RR6OKeRReppkVXXLp6G3x3pUYsFnUSwQ@mail.gmail.com> <BAY169-W5FDC742D5A4FA38B3A5A4E38D0@phx.gbl> <CAN6yY1sLqr_V1VhF=pz9K3f9_eUqED2EDQ9ECDPgsxE1BTvUqA@mail.gmail.com> <BAY169-W74B595F062D6C5D4066BA0E38D0@phx.gbl>
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Luan Hospodarsky <ironfall_blindguardian@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I already tried ndis and the module it generated did not work. > But I don't know anything about a ndis patch, can you tell me more about = it? > Replace the device is still an alternative, but I want to avoid it the ma= x possible. > I have never written a driver, but I could try. Do you have anything to s= hare that can help me give the first steps writing a driver? > Thanks. > >> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:54:05 -0800 >> Subject: Re: Realtek 8188ce driver >> From: kob6558@gmail.com >> To: ironfall_blindguardian@hotmail.com >> CC: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org >> >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Luan Hospodarsky >> <ironfall_blindguardian@hotmail.com> 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= shape but I don't know wehre it lives or whether the driver is in a workab= le setup. >> > >> > Does anyone know anything further? >> > >> > >> > >> > Adrian >> > >> > On 29 January 2012 13:24, LuX - I like you <ironfall_blindguardian@hot= mail.com> 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 R= ealtek 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 comp= atible 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, =A0but the card was shipped from Tel Aviv. =A0It 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 >> -- If the documentation for the interface is available, it's not too hard, but from what I've seen, wireless is one of the trickier ones. While I hope someone gets around to writing one, even with the Linux driver to work from, I don't think I'd want to try it. It's been years since I last wrote a driver and it was not on FreeBSD, so I am not the best source of an opinion. Sorry ndis failed. It cause my system to panic when it loaded the module, but a patch to NDIS to fix either my problems or something very similar was committed to HEAD several months ago and should be in 9.0 and maybe even 8.2. Sounds unlikely to fix the problem. If you don't have a Lenovo or HP, swapping is easy and supported half-height mini-PCIe cards are in the 20-25 USD range from multiple vendors. I know it's annoying to have to do it, but it is probably the only way you will get wireless on that system in even reasonably soon. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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