Using a Volans VL-UW30-FD with FreeBSD

[Peter Jeremy]

Whilst I'm waiting for ath10x support, I purchased a Volans VL-UW30-FD
USB dongle[1].  According to the specs, it contains a Realtek RTL8192EU
but usbconfig reports:
  idVendor = 0x0bda 
  idProduct = 0xf192 
whilst usbdevs says that a RTL8192EU is product 0x818b.

I tried creating a new product id and adding it to rtwn_devs[].  That
was a partial success:
rtwn0 on uhub0
rtwn0: <802.11n  WLAN Adapter> on usbus1
rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8192EU, RF 6052 2T2R
rtwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
rtwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
rtwn0: 2T2R
rtwn0: 11ng MCS 20MHz
rtwn0: MCS 0-7: 6.5Mbps - 65Mbps
rtwn0: MCS 8-15: 13Mbps - 130Mbps
rtwn0: 11ng MCS 20MHz SGI
rtwn0: MCS 0-7: 7Mbps - 72Mbps
rtwn0: MCS 8-15: 14.5Mbps - 144.5Mbps

But attempting to actually use the interface was less successful:
wlan0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
firmware: 'rtwn-rtl8192eufw' version 111: 31818 bytes loaded at 0xffffffff82663000
rtwn0: rtwn_load_firmware: failed to upload firmware rtwn-rtl8192eufw (error 5)

Has anyone bumped into one of these and got it working?

[1] https://www.volans.com.au/product/vl-uw30-fd/

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Peter Jeremy
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