I'm trying to get the TP-Link TL-WN727N V3 USB WiFi adapter working with FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE amd64. Native support for this adapter was recently added to -CURRENT, but I'd prefer not to update my system to -CURRENT. So I'm trying to generate a driver using
The Windows driver that I downloaded from the TP-Link website (zip file) contains 64-bit drivers for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Using
However, the adapter is still not recognized. When I plug it in, the following is listed in /var/log/messages:
The .inf file seems to contain relevant vendor and product IDs:
Some things that I have tried and that haven't helped:
Documentation for ndisgen that I have seen (also the built-in help) recommends to use Windows XP or 2003 drivers. Is it really the case that drivers for newer Windows versions are not supported or can there be some other reason why I can't generate a working driver? Such as that I had to modify ndisgen to use GNU grep instead of BSD grep to get ndisgen to recognize any Unicode-format .inf files at all?
ndisgen
and the Windows driver.The Windows driver that I downloaded from the TP-Link website (zip file) contains 64-bit drivers for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Using
ndisgen
on the Windows XP driver results in ndiscvt coredumping without any other error messages, and of course no driver generated. Windows Vista, 7 and 8 drivers are successfully converted by ndisgen and I can load the resulting kernel module, other necessary modules are loaded automatically:
Code:
# kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 24 0xffffffff80200000 9fc610 kernel
11 1 0xffffffff80e12000 20f4d5 netr28ux_sys.ko
12 2 0xffffffff81022000 145d3 ndis.ko
13 1 0xffffffff81037000 7342 if_ndis.ko
14 1 0xffffffff8103f000 300c6 wlan.ko
15 1 0xffffffff81070000 891f pccard.ko
However, the adapter is still not recognized. When I plug it in, the following is listed in /var/log/messages:
Code:
Dec 12 20:43:26 tu-134 root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x148f product 0x5370 bus uhub2
Dec 12 20:43:26 tu-134 kernel: ugen2.2: <TPlink> at usbus2
The .inf file seems to contain relevant vendor and product IDs:
Code:
# grep 5370 netr28ux.inf
%Generic.DeviceDesc% = OS61_RTWLANR.ndi, USB\VID_148F&PID_5370
Some things that I have tried and that haven't helped:
- When ndisgen prompts for firmware files, I tried to list all files that exist in the driver download other than the .inf and .sys file. I have no idea whether any of them are actually firmware files.
- I copied the aforementioned files to /compat/ndis.
kldload runfw
Documentation for ndisgen that I have seen (also the built-in help) recommends to use Windows XP or 2003 drivers. Is it really the case that drivers for newer Windows versions are not supported or can there be some other reason why I can't generate a working driver? Such as that I had to modify ndisgen to use GNU grep instead of BSD grep to get ndisgen to recognize any Unicode-format .inf files at all?