On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 06:05:46 Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> El 8/2/24 a las 16:48, Nat Sloss escribió:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's a little more required to add support for the FTV variant judging
> > by changes made to openbsd's if_urtwn.c.
> >
> > There's new firware that needs to be uploaded to the device. And new
> > power on and rssi functions (It seems judging by the changes they've
> > made it some what is similar to the 8188EUS).
> >
> > I'm going to see if I can get one of these adaptors on ebay.
> >
> > I't will be awhile though before I try to get it working.
> >
> > This is best done on the new wifi stack, so I doubt it will get
> > backported to -10.
> >
> > In the meantime if you search for an 8192eu variant that will work with
> > -10 and -9.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Nat
>
> Hello Nat,
>
> Thanks for your great explanation, I understand. I then abandon the
> tests with the 8188FTV and wait for your improvements. They will be
> appreciated. I cannot fix anything, the driver world seems to be a hell!
> :-)
>
> I have just received today from Amazon a TL-WN725N USB WIFI adaptor and
> it just work in the raspberry Pi Zero W:
>
> [ 1.710793] urtwn0 at uhub0 port 1
> [ 1.710793] urtwn0: Realtek (0x0bda) 802.11n NIC (0x8179), rev
> 2.00/0.00, addr 2
> [ 1.770890] urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R, address
> e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c
> [ 1.770890] urtwn0: 1 rx pipe, 2 tx pipes
>
>
>
> netbsd-raspa# ifconfig
> urtwn0: flags=0x8843 mtu 1500
> ssid MiFibra-3422 nwkey
> 65536:"",0xc8000336c6e2b40b047cd2f5ef44,"",""
> powersave off
> bssid 60:8d:26:32:34:24 chan 1
> address: e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c
> media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM54 mode 11g)
> status: active
> inet6 fe80::e6fa:c4ff:fe52:ac4c%urtwn0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x1
> inet 192.168.1.230/24 broadcast 192.168.1.255 flags 0
> lo0: flags=0x8049 mtu 33176
> status: active
> inet6 ::1/128 flags 0x20
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x2
> inet 127.0.0.1/8 flags 0
> bwfm0: flags=0x8802 mtu 1500
> ssid "" nwkey 65536:"","","",""
> powersave off
> address: b8:27:eb:ed:85:47
> media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
> status: no network
> netbsd-raspa#
>
> I have also the same problem that I had with the chineese 8188FTV, as
> soon I connect it to the raspberry pi it reboots inmediately. In the
> next reboot it works fine. It occurs the same in another Zero W that I
> own with Raspbian and a different power supply. So I doubt that the
> culprit is the power supply. The Zero W seems to be a very flaky device
> in terms of power supply.
>
A powered hub should fix that, when a device is plugged directly into the
raspberry pis usb (IIRC only 300mA is available) it can cause reboots.
> I am going to test it during several days to see if it works better than
> the flaky bwfm driver for the built in WIFI.
>
> I do not know if I have to disable the bwfm driver to avoid any
> interaction or I can leave it as is.
You shouldn't have to disable bwfm(4) just dont bring up it's interface.
>
> Thanks so much.
> Ramiro.
Best regards,
Nat
