With hrev55907, I’ve merged initial support for USB WiFi adapters, and enabled them in the realtekwifi driver. I tested it with one device myself (an 8812AU, to be precise) and it seems to work sufficiently; I was able to connect to a WPA2 network and browse the web.
Note that hot-plugging is not currently supported, you have to plug in dongles before booting! (You similarly cannot re-plug devices either.)
Lots of USB WiFi adapters are Realtek-based even if they’re under some other brand name, so if you have one, see if it works. (If it doesn’t, and it looks like FreeBSD supports it, open a ticket, as I should now be able to port drivers for other USB adapters that FreeBSD has, once the dust settles a bit.)
That’s great!
I have tons of those Realtek USB Wifi sticks laying around here.
Then I can use the Vonets VAP11G,which I currently use for Haiku,for my OpenIndiana machine where all those Realtek USB Wifi sticks are unsupported.
The best way is, you are test it and report this to us. The list of supported wireless usb adapters are very smal and the collecting of data at the beginning.
The TP-LINK TL-WN725N isn’t working for me under 55908. Do I need to load a kernel module or something? I don’t see a wifi adapter in the network settings.
Feeling frustrated…only my accursed card, TL-WN881ND, based on RTL8192EE is not getting any attention…Still have to depend on my laptop for routing wifi to my desktop PC
Just tested my Netgear Wireless-N 300 adapter (RTL8192CU chip). Works perfectly!
Thanks a lot @waddlesplash , this is a big game changer for me as I can now use my old spare PC for Haiku without having to resort to more complicated networking solutions (connecting to a laptop via ethernet and bridging the wifi connection etc.)
@lelldorin: complete system report for your database will follow shortly
I haven’t done any original driver development here thus far, my work here has all been on adding more support to our FreeBSD compatibility layer. FreeBSD WiFi driver development unfortunately seems to have stalled, and they haven’t been adding new features much (which doesn’t bode well admittedly.) The new support for USB WiFi was just imported from FreeBSD where it has been for years.
This is true but we have more support now. This was a big step forward. Not all will work, but with our hardware database we have the possability to look into it an get a running adapter.
