Switching from Raspbian OS to FreeBSD

Ok, at least the driver recognizes the card. Realtek has a tendency to modify their chips and not change the chip's identifications though. So the driver "thinks" it's a certain type of chip but in reality it's a slightly different one.

We just need to figure out if that's the case.
 
SirDice said:
Mixed up your threads?


That's encouraging. Does your SSID show up?
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yep, all nearby ssids show up including my main router and my extension thats placed in my room. I still think its because its not properly reading my wpa_supplicant file.
 
Hello, NoahBar, I have posted 2 forum posts at forums.ghostbsd.org about setting up wireless connection manually. You seem close to a working solution. Give the following a read and a test.

https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=526 Edimax EW-7811un Version 1 that uses a RTL8192cu Realtek chipset.
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=570 RTL8188ce PCI Realtek chipset

Use the following lines for testing wpa_supplicant with the Debug and Password debug printout options
Code: 
killall dhclient
wpa_supplicant -d -K -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient wlan0


Manually issue the wpa_supplicant with the background Dameon option and dhclient commands
Code: 
killall dhclient
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient wlan0
 
Your Netgear A6100 USB device is a Realtek RTL8811au chipset that should work with FreeBSD 12.1 or newer release.
https://bsd-hardware.info/?id=usb:0...802.11a/b/g/n/ac+WLAN+Adapter&dev_ident=77a9d

See this similar thread about RTL8812au Realtek device. It has other good troubleshooting details.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-12-driver-to-use-with-rtl8812au.75090/

Code: 
pkg install hw-probe
hw-probe -all -upload

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The device is supported by FreeBSD versions 12.1 and newer:
 
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