Re: urtwn(4) / rtwn(4) drivers are merged - call for review / testing

From: Kevin Lo <kevlo_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:58:40 +0800
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 01:54:21PM +0300, Andriy Voskoboinyk wrote:
> 
> Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:24:42 +0300 було написано Kevin Lo <kevlo_at_freebsd.org>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> So, the driver was fully tested. Thanks!
> Can you set dev.rtwn.0.debug=0x829f for RTL8188CE to see how big
> the problem is?

Sure.  Here you go https://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/rtl8188ce-debug.txt

Thanks,
Kevin

> > Hi Andriy,
> >
> > First of all, THANK YOU!  You're doing amazing work!
> > Second, I've done some testing on the following devices, downloading
> > FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20160809-r303880-disc1.iso from  
> > ftp.freebsd.org:
> >
> > - ASUS USB-N10 NANO (RTL8188CUS):
> >   rtwn0: <vendor 0x0b05 product 0x17ba, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr  
> > 3> on usbus0
> >   rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188CUS, RF 6052 1T1R
> >
> > - TP-Link TL-WN725N v2 (RTL8188EU):
> >   rtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n NIC, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4> on  
> > usbus0
> >   rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R
> >
> > - D-Link DWA-131 (RTL8192CU):
> >   rtwn0: <vendor 0x2001 product 0x330d, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr  
> > 3> on usbus0
> >   rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8192CU, RF 6052 2T2R
> >
> > - TP-Link Archer T4U (RTL8812AU):
> >   rtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n NIC, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 7> on  
> > usbus0
> >   rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8812AU, RF 6052 2T2R
> >
> > - D-Link DWA-171 rev A1 (RTL8821AU):
> >   rtwn0: <802.11n WLAN Adapter> on usbus0
> >   rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8821AU, RF 6052 1T1R
> >
> > - RTL8188CE mini pcie:
> >   rtwn0: <Realtek RTL8188CE> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem  
> > 0x90800000-0x90803fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci1
> >   rtwn0: r92ce_attach: warning: hardware crypto enabled
> >   rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188CE, RF 6052 1T1R
> >
> > All seems to be ok, except RTL8188CE PCIe adapter doesn't work:
> >
> > rtwn0: r92ce_post_init: warning: net80211 ratectl is used
> > rtwn0: device timeout
> >
> > 	Kevin
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:26:38PM +0300, Andriy Voskoboinyk wrote:
> >>
> >> Thu, 01 Sep 2016 19:29:03 +0300 було написано Andriy Voskoboinyk
> >> <avos_at_freebsd.org>:
> >>
> >> Now it resides on https://github.com/s3erios/freebsd-rtwn (integrated
> >> into src tree, so it can be built with 'make buildkernel' / 'make
> >> buildworld').
> >>
> >> This the last stage; once all reported issues will be resolved, I'm
> >> going to merge it into HEAD.
> >>
> >> > Hi everyone,
> >> >
> >> > rtwn(4), urtwn(4) and urtwm (from previous emails) drivers were merged
> >> > into a
> >> > single rtwn driver (plus rtwn_usb / rtwn_pci device glue); the code is
> >> > available on https://github.com/s3erios/rtwn repository. Among  
> >> bugfixes /
> >> > code deduplication, there some new features too:
> >> >
> >> > 1) multi-vap support (one any wireless interface + one STA interface +
> >> > any number of monitor mode interfaces).
> >> > 2) few new sysctls:
> >> >   * dev.rtwn.#.crypto - controls how to use hardware crypto  
> >> acceleration
> >> >   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl_selected
> >> >   * dev.rtwn.#.ratectl - selects current 'rate control' algorithm
> >> > (currently only 'none' and 'net80211' are supported; RTL8192CE needs
> >> > testing
> >> > with the last).
> >> > 3) (incomplete) power management support for RTL8188EU (requires
> >> > firmware).
> >> > 4) Short Guard Interval support.
> >> >
> >> > It's known to work with RTL8188CUS, RTL8188EU and RTL8821AU; however,
> >> > it was never tested with RTL8192CE or RTL8812AU.
> >> >
> >> > How-to-build:
> >> > 1) download / checkout the repository.
> >> > 2) apply 'patch-usbdevs.diff' against '/usr/src'
> >> > 3) build and install rtwn module:
> >> >     cd $repository/sys/modules/rtwn && make && make install
> >> > 4) build and install rtwn_usb/rtwn_pci:
> >> >     cd ../rtwn_usb && make && make install
> >> >     cd ../rtwn_pci && make && make install
> >> > 5) unload previous && load current drivers:
> >> >     kldunload if_urtwn if_rtwn
> >> >     kldload /boot/modules/if_rtwn.ko /boot/modules/if_rtwn_usb.ko
> >> > /boot/modules/if_rtwn_pci.ko
> >> > 6) Use.
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