On March 15, 2014:
Quote:
Originally Posted by IdOp
I'm going to make a fearless prediction that if a BSD Realtek 8188CE driver is developed it will be called rtwn(4).  |
It is there!
I downloaded the latest amd64 snapshot today
Code:
OpenBSD 5.8-beta (GENERIC.MP) #1126: Sun Jul 5 18:43:48 MDT 2015
and installed on the laptop to check how
athn(4) was doing. To my great surprize there was a new device recognized, named
rtwn0. Has its own man page,
rtwn(4) (you'll need to select -current). Indeed, it is the Realtek RTL8188CE PCIe 802.11b/g/n wireless network device.
Code:
rtwn0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8188CE" rev 0x01: msi
rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188CE, RF 6052 1T1R, address de:ad:be:ef:00:01
Code:
rtwn0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr de:ad:be:ef:00:01
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid ""
I had one small problem with the firmware file,
rtwn-firmware-1.0.tgz, which I downloaded. It wouldn't install, but upon investigating it turned out to be doubly gzip'ed. So one level of gunzip, and rename it, and it would then install.
# gzip -d rtwn-firmware-1.0.tgz
# mv rtwn-firmware-1.0.tar rtwn-firmware-1.0.tgz
# fw_update -p . rtwn
I tested it briefly and it would scan and make a connection OK. Still need to give it a better workout, but this is great news.