Good morning, A few weeks ago, I installed FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE on a box that had an [Asus PCE-N15](https://www.asus.com/us/Networking/PCEN15/) wireless network card based on the Realtek RTL8192CE chipset. According to the man page for the [rtwn](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtwn&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports) driver, this card was supported, however the driver refused to attach. Running pciconf -lv would show the device as none0, but had the correct vendor information.
Later on, after [inquiring on the forums](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/issue-getting-realtek-wireless-network-card-rtwn-driver-working-on-new-freebsd-installation.71677/), I decided to investigate the potential of patching the driver to work with my card. When I finally sat down tonight to start on it, I found the fix surprisingly simple. Looking at the driver source code under /sys/dev/rtwn/pci/rtwn_pci_attach.h, I see an array containing the vendor id's and device id's for PCI devices: static const struct rtwn_pci_ident rtwn_pci_ident_table[] = { { 0x10ec, 0x8176, "Realtek RTL8188CE", RTWN_CHIP_RTL8192CE }, { 0, 0, NULL, RTWN_CHIP_MAX_PCI } }; I noticed the device id 0x8176 was different from my card, which was reported as 0x8178. So I added to that array: { 0x10ec, 0x8178, "Realtek RTL8192CE", RTWN_CHIP_RTL8192CE }, And after building and installing a custom kernel with all the lines noted in the above man page to the config, I rebooted, noticed the driver is now attaching to the PCI device and have since been able to connect to my home wifi without issue. Honestly, I'm a bit suspicious at the ease of fixing this issue, and am not sure if this is something that should / could be contributed to the kernel code. I'm also sure, there are other device id's that would need added to have full support, but after asking some other people, I was suggested to send an email to this address. Thanks, James Parsons _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
