Using a Volans VL-UW30-FD with FreeBSD

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Thu Oct 22 10:07:35 UTC 2020


On 22 Oct 2020, at 9:02, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-wireless wrote:

> 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.

These things often come in different versions and each version can have 
totally different chipsets.

If it is an RTL8192EU you find other reports of problems here  
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247528 of people who 
didn’t get that far or further.


/bz


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