From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 04:48:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF74106564A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:48:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FA58FC08 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr11 with SMTP id dr11so5297746wgb.31 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:48:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=rTQzKdn42FEnaetAwvwGDRrOEw8MGJeMYBPVTRi6myk=; b=beX4hzZXoPOKpiZVih7ei/0pA661dFjmCzwwQ9Zzc2Q+5jOZOrXypIez4smW5GpMmv lvWbbA+74zQosuhW+SwMP4LNmxz1tB0/AxHEHmlLyluR1kxbCaAgZk0LLAIhzm3YHCGp oSBPaakspbXst/JrIWAp4Ac+P0Rx4tw0vc27g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.95.131 with SMTP id dk3mr1159939wib.6.1327985332985; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.101.196 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:48:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:48:52 -0800 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Luan Hospodarsky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8188ce driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:48:54 -0000 On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Luan Hospodarsky wrote: > > Hello Kevin, > I understood almost everything you said, only one more question: > > This patch that was updated to HEAD, how do I do to get it? Is it included in the ndis port/package? > Write the driver I think is almost impossible for me, I am not engineer, only programmer. So I guess it is hard to deal with the hardware. > Anyway, thanks for the attention and if anyone in anywhere find (or make) any solution for it I will be very grateful. > I will try to find some old drivers from realtek to this device and test. If everything get wrong I'll buy another...Not from Realtek. ndis is part of the base FreeBSD, not a port. If you run 9.0, 9-stable or 8-stable, it's part of the OS. The patch was to fix a potential panic, so unless te ndis module was crashing your system, it's not going to help. It is quite possible that getting the latest ndis sources for the main version of FreeBSD you are running from cvs or svn, but version mis-match in the kernel could cause it to fail either to compile or work. This a a rather new device from Realtek. I don't think that there are any "old" drivers. We have lots of drivers for wired Realtek drivers in FreeBSD, but no wireless drivers that I am aware of. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com