Re: Wireless USB Adapter

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hello imglitch and Bretty,

Brett Lymn writes:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:40:48PM +0000, imglitch%protonmail.com@localhost wrote:
> > 
> > So, I took a look at http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?urtwn+4.i386+NetBSD-8.0 and despite the fact the my specific device is not listed on the hardware list, it`s chipset is listed as one of the supported ones. If the chipset is supported, then why it is loaded as ugen when I plug it on my laptop?
> > 
> > My adapter: TP-LINK TL WN823N
> > Chipset: RTL8192EU
> > 
>
> The EU on the end is very significant.  That variant is not supported at
> the moment.  I have some (old) local mods that get the firmware loaded
> but I was stuck on getting the interface actually passing packets.  It
> is not just a matter of adding the USB id unfortunately, the method of
> loading the firmware is not the same as the other 8192 chipset variants.
>

At least on -current (after Jun 2018) urtwn(4) seems to had several
commits about 8192EU support.  If you have not tried them recently
probably it's worth to try (otherwise please ignore this email!).