Re: urtwn driver for Edimax EW-7811U WLAN nano USB Adapter

From: Julian H. Stacey <jhs_at_berklix.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 17:21:48 +0200
I wrote Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:28:43 +0200 
> Rui Paulo wrote:
> > 
> > On 2 Oct 2013, at 16:57, Julian H. Stacey <jhs_at_berklix.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi current_at_,
> > > It seems I need if_urtwn driver for a really miniature WLAN USB stick,
> > > & if_urtwn is only in current ?
> > > man 4 if_urtwn refers to ports/net/urtwn-firmware-kmod which is missing ?
> > 
> > 
> > This driver was never merged to FreeBSD 9.
> 
> OK, Thanks for confirmation.
> 
> 
> > Can you use FreeBSD 10 instead?
> 
> Yes, easier than building from 9.X I guess (& helps test alpha :-).
> I'll fetch from local mirror, per
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-September/044951.html
> 
> 
> > The port reference in the man page is wrong. The firmware is now shipped as part of the base system.
> 
> Oh nice, easier :-)

I'm happy to report with 10.0-ALPHA4 /boot/loader.conf if_urtwn_load="YES"
`ifconfig wlan0 scan` works OK. Thanks :-) 

Cheers,
Julian
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