Hello ! As workaround you could look - for example - at the following USB WiFi adapter.
TP-LINK WN725NN (should be that model but I am not 100% sure) Edimax EW-7811Un Booth work (not perfect) with urtwn. I had to many WiFi networks around me so, I switched back to a Android tablet and use USB tethering for my internet connection (LTE). > 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.
