Installing the Realtek PCI-e Module in PfSense / FreeBSD [Help]

prickly_porcupine

Hi, I recently purchased a Rosewill PCI-e WiFi Adapter (RNX-N250PCEv2) and I'm attempting to use it with my PFSense firewall, but it's not recognizing it. pciconf -l results in none1@pci0:3:0:0. I came across the rtwn - Realtek IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver and also the rtwn-pci network driver but I'm not sure how to load these module into FreeBSD / PFSense. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtwn_pci&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.0-RELEASE+and+Ports

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rtwn&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports

stephenw10

I must appear on the PCI bus with a chip ID if it can be used. Try using: pciconf -lv.

It might be usb connected somehow so if it doesn't appear there try: usbconfig dump_device_desc

Steve

prickly_porcupine

Below are the results of pciconf -lv

none1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x818b10ec chip=0x818b10ec rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter'
class = network

stephenw10

@prickly_porcupine said in Installing the Realtek PCI-e Module in PfSense / FreeBSD [Help]:

chip=0x818b10ec

Mmm, looks like even in the most recent code that chip is not supported:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/848287bd3d9c4c22f4423538c714f8f05b9ef254/sys/dev/rtwn/pci/rtwn_pci_attach.h#L35

static const struct rtwn_pci_ident rtwn_pci_ident_table[] = {
	{ 0x10ec, 0x8176, "Realtek RTL8188CE", RTWN_CHIP_RTL8192CE },
	{ 0x10ec, 0x8179, "Realtek RTL8188EE", RTWN_CHIP_RTL8188EE },
	{ 0, 0, NULL, RTWN_CHIP_MAX_PCI }
};

Some coding would be required to make that work.

Steve

prickly_porcupine

Thanks @stephenw10 for the insight, I really appreciate it. I won't waste any more time on this.