Stefan,
Thank you very very much for your attention. When i grow up, i would
like to be like you =P. Unfortunatelly I don't program anymore, to get the
knowledge to do this i'll spend a lot of time, but it's my intention to
come back to study computer programming and maybe in a future helps the
OpenBSD team.
I understand your cares to keep the originality of the OS and that's
what makes me and others to prefer to use the OpenBSD.
Thank you very much!
Luiz Diego Fernandes de Moraes
2015-12-11 15:28 GMT-02:00 Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name>:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 02:37:54PM -0200, Luiz Moraes wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> > I already downloaded from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.8/
> the
> > firmwares *rtwn*, *rsu and* u*rtwn *and installed them all with
> *fw_update*,
> > later i restarted the laptop but the status on *dmesg *is the same.
>
> There's a difference between driver and firmware code.
> The driver runs on the OpenBSD kernel (it's part of the /bsd file)
> and the firmare is loaded into the device as part of making
> the device operational.
>
> The rtwn(4) driver only supports RTL 8188CE devices at present.
> Your chip is a cousin of that chip, but it's different and the
> driver does not know how to make it work yet. Once the driver
> supports your chip, the required firmware will also be shipped
> in the rtwn-firmware package.
>
> > I really would like to can keep OpenBSD as the main OS, but maybe
> i'll
> > have to get FreeBSD to use the *ndisgen (*Is the ndiswrapper for FreeBSD
> > and DragonflyBSD).
>
> You could also use a support USB wireless device, for now.
> Run this command:
> man -k wireless
> to see a list of drivers and look at the USB ones.
>
> With some effort you'll be able to find a supported device, for sure.
> I often find supported devices on ebay for just 1 euro + shipping.
>
> You can also find some USB devices supported by run(4), urtwn(4),
> or athn(4) sold new in some stores around the world. But with
> used devices chances of support are somewhat higher.
>
> If your machine is a laptop that has a cardbus or express card slot,
> you could also try to find a cardbus card supported by drivers such
> as ath(4) and ral(4) (+ cardbus -> express card adapter if needed).
> These tend to work very well.
>
> Note that the time you would spend on hunting down a supported device
> is very small compared to the time it takes to add code to the driver
> to support your device. Eventually somebody (maybe me) may find time
> to add this support. It would take me at least a week of sitting down
> and working hard. I'd need to take that time out of other things in
> life, so I cannot promise anything. Developers who have never done
> this before would need even more time.
> That said, my plan already was, before your mail, to support more realtek
> devices in rtwn(4) eventually. I just don't know when it will happen.
>
> > Can i get the *ndisgen *from FreeBSD and run on OpenBSD? (I woulnd
> like
> > to change it, but if the OpenBSD doesnt give me options i'll have to
> find a
> > way to keep me with it)
>
> No. There is no support for binary blobs in OpenBSD, and there never will
> be.
> We prefer writing code that makes blobs unnecessary.
