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List:       openbsd-bugs
Subject:    Re:
From:       Stefan Sperling <stsp () stsp ! name>
Date:       2021-07-08 15:26:03
Message-ID: YOcZC3Xgg7EV1As8 () camille ! stsp ! name
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 04:00:15PM +0200, landwar@asia.com wrote:
> > Synopsis:	<wifi adapter with almost the same name not supported>
> > Category:	<kernel>
> > Environment:
> 	System      : OpenBSD 6.9
> 	Details     : OpenBSD 6.9 (GENERIC) #4: Mon Jun  7 08:20:14 MDT 2021
> 			 root@syspatch-69-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
> 
> 	Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64
> 	Machine     : amd64
> > Description:
> 	<"Realtek 8192SE" doesn't work. the nice people in #openbsd said i could use \
> sendbug since it's probably just a small change.>
> > How-To-Repeat:
> 	<Have the same hardware? I don't know. I'm new to this. Pleas don't kill me!>
> > Fix:
> 	

Sorry, the *SE variants aren't yet supported.
Adding support for these would certainly not be a "small change".
It would involve figuring out what realtek's driver developers did
in Linux rtlwifi's subdirectory for this chip relative to the already
supported variants, and then writing corresponding code for OpenBSD's
rtwn driver from scratch (rtlwifi is GPL).


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