alfa awus036H wifi driver

[Predrag Punosevac]

Anonymous coward wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have an Alfa awus036H that I'd like to get working on DragonFlyBSD.
> 
> Dmesg from freebsd:
> urtw0: <vendor 0x0bda product 0x8187, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr
> 3> on usbus4
> urtw0: unknown RTL8187L type: 0x8000000
> urtw0: rtl8187l rf rtl8225u hwrev none
> 
> Searching around, I found support was commited to freebsd October 2014:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194091
> 
> Would it be possible to port this to Dfly?
> 
> Thanks!

I am guessing yes it would be possible and probably not too hard.
OpenBSD has the support for the same device

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man4/urtw.4

but porting code from FreeBSD might be easier. In any case personally I
use DF for my NAS server so I have no interest in such devices.

Cheers,
Predrag