Bug 146054 - [urtw] [usb8] urtw driver potentially out of date
Summary: [urtw] [usb8] urtw driver potentially out of date
Status: Closed Feedback Timeout
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: usb (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-usb (Nobody)
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Reported: 2010-04-26 08:50 UTC by Julian Vallis
Modified: 2015-12-25 05:15 UTC (History)
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Description Julian Vallis 2010-04-26 08:50:01 UTC 
Problem described and discussed with the pfSense team here:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,24475.0.html

Essentially, the urtw driver seems to have been updated in OpenBSD, and should be incorporated into FreeBSD.

The specific issue is using the Alfa AWUS036H USB WLAN card on pfSense 2.0, which in turn uses FreeBSD 8. The urtw driver is not recognising the vendor of the card, despite OpenBSD man pages for urtw clearly showing support for the card. Given this card is a favourite for airocrack-ng due to it's 500mW/1W radio output, it's a very popular card.

Fix: 

none at the moment
How-To-Repeat: Try to configure the Alfa AWUS036H USB WLAN using urtw(4) on a FreeBSD 8.0 (or ideally pfSense 2.0) installation.
Comment 1 Andrey V. Elsukov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-08-22 18:56:59 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

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