Solved I am an idiot [rtl8821au n00by stuff...]

BaronKRoolenstein

BaronKRoolenstein

Okay, I got freeBSD 13.2 (or whatever the latest release is, its been on my pc about a month) burnt to a disc and installed on my kaby lake dell box... also my only pc, i'm typing this from my ipad right now.

Can't get wifi working though, chipset is rtl8821au. (tplink archer t2u, GB band) there's a device driver for it but it doesn't pick anything up. Just said no networks in the gui installer now i dunno what to do.

Tried to add the thingy in /boot/loader.conf like it told me to and well, rebooted and checked ifconfig and there's still only an unplugged ethernet link.

I feel like an idiot. Hence the thread title. Since this question probably pops up every other day from n00bs.

No, I'm not familiar with *nix, this is my first time with a bsd-like actually, messed with linux a bit but nothing too special there, never even gone near arch or its ilk... mostly a suse/debian guy, judge me all you like :x and no I can't hook up to mobile hotspot nor ethernet, housing situation is... it's personal and not for this thread's scope; and i dont own a smartphone either
 
Phishfry said:
No you did not that is for FreeBSD 14. Not yet applicable. Getting close though.
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Interesting, the man page on my (14.0-CURRENT) system says:
Code: 
HISTORY
     The rtw88 driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.2.
...which would mean it indeed made it into 13.2 and the web version is just outdated.
 
yuripv79 said:
which would mean it indeed made it into 13.2 and the web version is just outdated.
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Seems to be there, yes.

Code: 
dice@maelcum:~ % ll /boot/kernel/if_rtw88.ko
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1259208 Apr  7 06:54 /boot/kernel/if_rtw88.ko*
dice@maelcum:~ % freebsd-version
13.2-RELEASE-p1

I think the man page wasn't adjusted properly when it got MFC'ed.

Mine shows:
Code: 
HISTORY
     The rtw88 driver first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.
 
Here is what I found:
www.tp-link.com

AC600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter

With 600Mbps WiFi speeds and simultaneous 5GHz and 2.4GHz bands, Archer T2U provides connections for lag-free HD video streaming and gaming.
www.tp-link.com www.tp-link.com
Notice several versions in dropdown.

So hotplug use usbconfig and chase down productID in usbdevs to see if supported there..
 
I ended up buying a wireless repeater instead with a ethernet port on it and got it plugged into the system now, hey it got me out the house and means i likely won't have to deal with the patchy 802.11r setup at the property i reside at as much.

My desktop happens to be placed in quite possibly the worst spot possible for roaming overlap it seems lol and I don't feel like rearranging five different devices on the same shelf again, I like the current setup.

Seems like theres some disrepancy in the docs though from what im reading above though? I did search the forums before asking and found that the driver was meant to be included with 13.2 ^^
 
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