DWA131 USB wireless Support

[louies0623]

When I plug in the hardware, the system wireless network does not detect any networks. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtwn_usb&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+12.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

[probonopd]

Thanks for reporting. Unfortunately we cannot fix this in helloSystem. It seems like the official FreeBSD kernel (which we are using) is not built with support for this device.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtwn_usb&apropos=0&sektion=4 says that rtwn_usb must be compiled into the kernel.

Apparently this is not the case for the official FreeBSD kernel binary:

% sysctl kern.conftxt | grep rt  
device  uart_ns8250
device  smartpqi
device  uart
device  rtsx
device  virtio
device  virtio_pci
device  virtio_blk
device  virtio_scsi
device  virtio_balloon

So you either need to compile your own kernel or convince the FreeBSD developers to build rtwn_usb support into the official kernel.

Does it work on GhostBSD? They are building their own kernel instead of using the one provided by FreeBSD.

[louies0623]

It can be used normally on GhostBSD 23.06.01 Maybe we can use their drivers?

[probonopd]

On GhostBSD, please run:

sysctl kern.conftxt | grep rt  

and post the result here. Maybe they configured their kernel differently.

[louies0623]

[probonopd]

Interesting. So their kernel also doesn't show rtwn_usb but it works.

If you can find out what we need to change, I am happy to make the change.

[louies0623]

Hardware Probe https://bsd-hardware.info/?id=usb:2001-3319