urtwn: firmware not loading in 11.0 and CURRENT, possible regression from 10.3?

[Will Ross]

Hi all,

I've been having some trouble getting a TP-Link TL-WN725N v2 working with FreeBSD 11. I've at least gotten it recognized in 10.3, but it doesn't seem to load the firmware in later versions. I've tested 11.0-RC1, 11.0-RC2, an older copy of 11.0-ALPHA1 and the latest CURRENT snapshot (r303880). The ALPHA1 test was on a Beaglebone Black, while the other tests were all done on a Raspberry Pi B+.

Not working:

root at mimir:~ # kenv legal.realtek.license_ack
1
root at mimir:~ # dmesg | grep urtwn
urtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n NIC, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2> on usbus1
urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R
urtwn0: enabling 11n
root at mimir:~ # ifconfig -l
cpsw0 lo0
root at mimir:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD mimir.home.paxswill.com 11.0-ALPHA1 FreeBSD 11.0-ALPHA1 #0 r300895: Sat May 28 14:31:52 UTC 2016     root at releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/BEAGLEBONE  arm

root at rpi-b:~ # kenv legal.realtek.license_ack
1
root at rpi-b:~ # dmesg | grep urtwn
urtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n NIC, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4> on usbus0
urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R
urtwn0: enabling 11n
root at rpi-b:~ # ifconfig -l
lo0 ue0
root at rpi-b:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD rpi-b 11.0-RC2 FreeBSD 11.0-RC2 #0 r304729: Wed Aug 24 16:52:01 UTC 2016     root at releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/RPI-B  arm

root at rpi-b:~ # kenv legal.realtek.license_ack
1
root at rpi-b:~ # dmesg | grep urtwn
urtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n NIC, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4> on usbus0
urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R
urtwn0: enabling 11n
root at rpi-b:~ # ifconfig -l
lo0 ue0
root at rpi-b:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD rpi-b 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r303880: Wed Aug 10 03:23:51 UTC 2016     root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/RPI-B  arm

Working:

root at rpi-b:~ # kenv legal.realtek.license_ack
1
root at rpi-b:~ # dmesg | grep urtwn
urtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n NIC, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4> on usbus0
urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R
root at rpi-b:~ # ifconfig -l
lo0 ue0 urtwn0
root at rpi-b:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD rpi-b 10.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25 08:01:14 UTC 2016     root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/RPI-B  arm

This looks like a regression, but I'm not sure where to go from here. Thanks.
-Will
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