USB WIFI setup through vmware player

[gloob]

Howdy,

I am fresh to FreeBSD as of a few days ago and am trying to setup a wireless NIC (TP-WN723N V3) in FreeBSD 10.0, which appears to be covered as a supported device (see http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html) using the urtwn(4) driver. I have loaded the urtwn(4) kernel module, which shows up as if_urtwn.ko when I issue kldstat. FreeBSD realizes the presence of the USB NIC through VMWare player, giving

urgen0.4: <802.11n NIC Realtek> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST, spd=FILL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (500 mA)

when I issue usbconfig. However, I receive

ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured

, when I run ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 per the urtwn(4) man pages. Any suggestions on moving forward from here? I am also new to this forum so please let me if I am following the forum rules incorrectly. Thanks!

 

[SirDice]

Depending on how you configured VMWare all network interfaces are virtualized. Meaning you don't have direct access to them. Wireless network cards will show up as a 'regular' wired network card. The wireless settings would need to be taken care of on the host side.

You may get it working if you use "USB pass-through". In that case VMWare won't virtualize the (USB) network card and instead passes it on directly to the VM. But I'm not sure if that works correctly.

 

[gloob]

Thanks for the reply. I got to the next step in the wireless setup through a newly purchased EW-7811Un which did load urtwn, but with a

urtwn0: timeout waiting for MAC auto on

or

wn0: timeout waiting for checksum

.
Upon configuring /etc/rc.conf
with

wlans_urtwn0="wlan0"

and running

wpa_supplicant -D bsd -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant

where /etc/wpa_supplicant
was supplied by wpa_passphrase "SSIDNAME" "PASSWORD",
I encountered

ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=26, val=0, arg_len=0]: Operation not supported

.
I can setup up an ip address on wlan0 and ping my router. The issue may be related to this thread https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=44299, in which case EW-7811Un is not completely supported for freeBSD. Is there any hope?