urtwn(4) / rtwn(4) drivers are merged - call for testing (Was: RTL8812AU / RTL8821AU driver)

Marcus von Appen mva at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 4 08:38:24 UTC 2016


On, Thu Sep 01, 2016, Andriy Voskoboinyk wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> rtwn(4), urtwn(4) and urtwm (from previous emails) drivers were merged
> into a
> single rtwn driver (plus rtwn_usb / rtwn_pci device glue); the code is
> available on https://github.com/s3erios/rtwn repository. Among bugfixes /
> code deduplication, there some new features too:
>
> 1) multi-vap support (one any wireless interface + one STA interface +
> any number of monitor mode interfaces).
> 2) few new sysctls:
>   * dev.rtwn.#.crypto - controls how to use hardware crypto acceleration
>   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl_selected
>   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl - selects current 'rate control' algorithm
> (currently only 'none' and 'net80211' are supported; RTL8192CE needs
> testing
> with the last).

I got a RTL8192CE - what should I look for, when using net80211?

Cheers
Marcus
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