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

On 10/8/13 10:41 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi Alfred & cc current.
>
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> On 10/6/13 8:21 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>>> 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
>> Cool!
>>
>> I have a g4 tibook 12in with an if_bwn that doesn't really work at all.
>>
>> I got one of these (if_urtwn) and it works enough to download about a
>> meg or so before the watchdog kicks in and I have to ifconfig down/up it
>> to get it to respond again.
>>
>> I even have a patch pending to add the usb identifier for this.
>>
>> Is there someone I can provide debug information for to help resolve this?
> I too am seeing
> 	urtwn0: timeout waiting for checksum report
> sometimes I can scan & sometimes not,
> (whereas with a run0: stick I have no problem)
> I've not got as far as trying to move data.
> I'd appreciate any patches you have Alfred
Unfortunately all my time right now is being spent syncing changes to 
FreeNAS from our commercial product TrueNAS to improve both products.  I 
tried to look at the code but my eyes quickly went cross and I had to 
get back to build stuff.

-Alfred