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> Subject: Re: OpenBSD and Realtek rtl8187: 8187B wireless chipset
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> > yup; i am writing this email from one. ;-) got it working couple
> > of months ago but was slac^H^H^H^Hbusy and did not clean it up yet;
> >
> > which one do you have? usbdevs -v?
> >
>
> oh wow that's great news! I don't have openbsd installed on (the
> machine) yet - lack of support for this device was a show-stopper as
> it is a laptop. Linux shows this in the dmesg:
>
> [ 105.708047] rtl8187: Invalid hwaddr! Using randomly generated MAC address
> [ 214.908048] rtl8187: 8187B chip detected. Support is EXPERIMENTAL,
> and could damage your
> [ 214.908050] hardware, use at your own risk
> [ 214.909768] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
> [ 218.447469] phy0: hwaddr 6e:72:7b:10:73:c6, RTL8187BvB V1 + rtl8225z2
> [ 218.447515] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
>
> (rest of dmesg is at
> http://www.growveg.org/laptop/kubuntu/kubuntu-8_dmesg.txt)
>
> I managed to get it actually working under ubuntu-9.04 but have no
> lspci output for it yet. the last time I tried freebsd-current back in
> November, I got:
>
> no...@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xff501179 chip=0x436c11ab
> rev=0x16 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
> class = network
> subclass = ethernet
> cap 01[48] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0
> cap 05[5c] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
> cap 10[c0] = PCI-Express 2 legacy endpoint
>
> I need to install the latest openbsd now.
> Can you post your usbdevs -v
port 6 addr 2: high speed, power 100 mA, unconfigured, WG111v3(0x4260),
BayNETG EAR(0x0846), rev 2.00, iSerialNumber 001B2F32CAA0
> ifconfig -a
urtw0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:1b:2f:32:ca:a0
priority: 0
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (DS1 mode 11g)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid "" chan 1 bssid 00:15:e9:f7:5a:9e 143dB 100dBm
inet 192.168.2.22 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
inet6 fe80::21b:2fff:fe32:caa0%urtw0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> and relevant bit of dmesg?
urtw0 at uhub0 port 5 "BayNETGEAR WG111v3" rev 2.00/2.00 addr 2
urtw0: RTL8187B rev. E, address 00:1b:2f:32:ca:a0
> I'll be really interested in seeing those. What's performance
> like?
it is oki
> My laptop is a toshiba satellite A300