RealTek RTL8192E/RTL8192SE Wireless Support

Stephen Albright salbright.fbsd at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 00:31:39 UTC 2018


Hello All:

I have a Samsung NP-N140 with a RTL8192E card and I am having difficulty
with it.  I am running -current because if I read the man pages correctly,
only 12-Current has the driver in rtwn (from the rtwn(4) man page).  So, I
built a custom kernel per the man pages:

#
# MYKERNEL -- Custom Kernel for FreeBSD/i386
#
# Originally created for 12.0 Current 20180605 r334665
#

include GENERIC
ident MYKERNEL

# Custom Lines for the Samsung NP-N140
device          rtwn                    # Required for Wireless
device          rtwnfw                  # Required for Wireless
device          rtwn_pci                # Required for Wireless

and I have a statement in /boot/loader.conf

legal.realtek.license_ack=1

There are no error messages in dmesg pertaining to it that I see, however,
pciconf -lv shows there is no driver bound to it

...
none1 at pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x7160144f chip=0x819210ec
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
    device     = 'RTL8192E/RTL8192SE Wireless LAN Controller'
    class      = network


I realize this is probably a lack of google capabilities so I do apologize
in advance, but any thoughts or suggestions to point me in the right
direction?

Stephen


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