Considering the rsu driver is actually able to name and place the adapter on boot, this was strange to me. Neither attempt succeeded, which makes me doubt the claim that " FreeBSD wifi support to be pretty good if not on par with Linux", What makes this infinitely worse is for some reason every message I put here is kept on hold until approved by a mod, which might as well be a timer for a good few hours.ĭoing sudo kldload if_rsu rsu-rtl8712fw as suggested by this man page, and then attempting sudo ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev rsu0 causes the ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured error. But I did thereafter try it for my usb wifi adapter, with the rsu driver as well as the run driver, though I'm fairly certain it is Realtek hardware. It will be wlan0 and that is the one you will be using (with wpa_supplicant, etc). Once you have done this step, you won't see bwn0 or ath0 in ifconfig. If you have used Solaris before, this step kind of feels like ifconfig plumb. If you don't know what your interface name is at this point, you can get a list of detected wifi interfaces first by doing sysctl.
Only after this command will you see your wireless device. Perhaps yours will be (based on the if_bwn manpage) However, are you aware that you need to actually prepare the wifi interface before it will show up in ifconfig?Ĭheck out this manpage near the bottom for these commands (if_ath because it is what I am using currently). There are some cases where I have had adapters that work on FreeBSD but not Linux (and vice versa). Any help would be greatly appreciated.Click to expand.In general I notice FreeBSD wifi support to be pretty good if not on par with Linux. In my searching, I have not seen anyone come across this yet, so I am unsure of what to do next. I upgraded to the next stable release in the hopes that it would resolve the issue. (It still shows up in the driver list though.) I should note that I had the same result with kernel v3.16. Update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.17.1-031701-genericĬlearly I cannot assign wl if it can't be located. Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.103ubuntu8).
Update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.248+bdcom DKMS files.īuilding initial module for 3.17.1-031701-genericĮRROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-3.17.1-031701-generic is not supportedĮrror! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.17.1-031701-generic (x86_64)Ĭonsult /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.248+bdcom/build/make.log for more information. 340457 files and directories currently installed.) Get:1 utopic/restricted bcmwl-kernel-source amd64 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu1 Linux-image-extra-3.16.0-23-generic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-29-generic linux-signed-image-3.16.0-23-generic linux-signed-image-3.16.0-29-genericġ upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 63 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 2,267 kB of additional disk space will be used. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> $ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source When I attempted this install, I get an error indicating ~ When I saw this, I thought that perhaps I should reinstall the driver using the directions found in the Ubuntu help resources. However, the adapter still features UNCLAIMED status in the lshw output: Indeed, this initially appeared to work, because I see it in the driver list associated with the adapter: Consequently, I installed the proprietary driver ( wl) using the.