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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:02:30 -0400
From:      paul belair <paulfrottawa@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Realtek RTL8191SE/RTL8192SE WiFi chipset
Message-ID:  <CAH%2Bv3W13rJMcaoecMy7Yc3=4kk89uunNzKVeuWZDqQU=CB47uQ@mail.gmail.com>

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FreeBSD comp2.mywlan.ca 8.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #1: Mon May 16
10:05:47 EDT 2011     root@comp2.mywlan.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/amd64  amd64


Trying to build a driver for this device.
>
> none2@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x815110ec chip=0x817210ec rev=0x10
hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>    device     = 'Realtek RTL8191SE wireless LAN 802.11N PCI-E NIC
(RTL8191SE ?)'
>    class      = network
>    bar   [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x2000, size 256, enabled
>    bar   [14] = type Memory, range 32, base 0x94600000, size 16384,
enabled
>    cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
>    cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>    cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint max data 128(256) link
x1(x1)
> ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected
> ecap 0002[140] = VC 1 max VC0
> ecap 0003[160] = Serial 1 885522feff4ce000

The windows drivers are missing the firmware. Explained in Suse forums.

So I need to build this driver from Realtek
>
> RTL8191SE-VA2
> From:
> http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Downloads=true

comp5# make
> "Makefile", line 11: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 14: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 18: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 21: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 22: warning: duplicate script for target "ifeq" ignored
> "Makefile", line 23: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 26: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 49: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 50: warning: duplicate script for target "ifeq" ignored
> "Makefile", line 50: warning: duplicate script for target "(RTL8192SE,)"
> ignored
> "Makefile", line 50: warning: duplicate script for target "(RTL8192SE_SA)"
> ignored
> "Makefile", line 51: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 52: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 53: warning: duplicate script for target "ifeq" ignored
> "Makefile", line 53: warning: duplicate script for target "(RTL8192SE,)"
> ignored
> "Makefile", line 54: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> comp5# gmake
> make: chdir /lib/modules/8.2-RELEASE/build: No such file or directory
> gmake: *** [all] Error 1
> comp5#
>
So I create /lib/modules/8.2-RELEASE/build and get this error.

 Code:

comp5# gmake
make: don't know how to make modules. Stop
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
comp5#



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