FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE urtwn

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Thu Dec 10 15:58:59 UTC 2020


> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 04:35:54PM +0100, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 07:27:37AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > > man urtwn - describes driver for RTL8188EUS and other USB WiFi devices - 
> > > > exactly what i need.
> > > 
> > > man urtwn on my 12.1 system returns an error.
> > > 
> > > I think somehow a leading u snuck in here.
> > > I know this driver as the rtwn driver.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > device urtwn in config - doesn't work
> > > > cd /usr/src;find . -iname "urtwn*" - nothing founds
> > > 
> > > cd /usr/src/; find . -iname "*rtwn*"
> > > 
> > > > Where is that driver for which manual is present?
> > > 
> > 
> > This driver was present in FreeBSD 11. Perhaps the poster has
> > upgraded his system without removing old files?
> 
> Indeed:
> > grep urtwn ObsoleteFiles.inc
> # 20161017: urtwn(4) was merged into rtwn(4)
> OLD_FILES+=usr/share/man/man4/urtwn.4.gz
> OLD_FILES+=usr/share/man/man4/urtwnfw.4.gz

Good eye!  That indeed would do it.  I had totally forgotten about
this renameing.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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