RealTek RTL8192E/RTL8192SE Wireless Support

Stephen Albright salbright.fbsd at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 10:15:06 UTC 2018


Pete,

That did not work either.  interestingly enough, they did not load after
reboot. 'kldstat' reports 'kernel' as the only thing loaded.

Stephen

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Stephen Albright <salbright.fbsd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> I did not try in /etc/rc.conf.  I did however try with GENERIC and use
> kldload and kldstat listed them as loaded.  I will try the rc.conf method
> momentarily.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 06/13/2018 17:31, Stephen Albright wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>
>>
>> out of curiosity have you attempted to boot 12-CURRENT with the stock
>> GENERIC kernel and attempt to load the kernel module by hand or via
>> /etc/rc.conf?
>>
>> for example you could create this line in /etc/rc.conf:
>> kld_list="rtwn.ko"
>>
>> then verify it is loaded after reboot by running "kldstat".
>>
>> cheers,
>> -pete
>>
>> --
>> Pete Wright
>> pete at nomadlogic.org
>> @nomadlogicLA
>>
>>
>


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