On 2022-12-02, Heppler, J. Scott <shep971@spectrum.net> wrote:
> I'm shopping for a faster (300mbps +) PCIe wireless card. Although I'm
> leaning intel, realtek's base firmware is an advantage.
> V2 of the TP-LINK TL-WN881ND uses rtl8192ee chipset which was in the
> separate sysutils/firmware builds:
>
> @comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.2 2018/09/21 09:49:45 sthen Exp $
> firmware/rtwn-license
> firmware/rtwn-rtl8188efw
> firmware/rtwn-rtl8192cfwU
> firmware/rtwn-rtl8192cfwU_B
> firmware/rtwn-rtl8192eefw
> firmware/rtwn-rtl8723befw_36
> firmware/rtwn-rtl8723fw
> firmware/rtwn-rtl8723fw_B
>
>
> Recent current ls /etc/firwmare | grep rtwn:
>
> rtwn-license rtwn-rtl8192cU rtwn-rtl8723
> rtwn-rtl8188e rtwn-rtl8192cU_B rtwn-rtl8723_B
>
> Would a rtl8192ee chipset be supported?
It's not clear. Though it's listed in rtwn(4), the actual driver didn't
use the rtl8192eefw file (probably hitting a fallback case and using
rtl8192cU_B). 8192ee doesn't show up in the dmesg@openbsd.org logs.
I wouldn't buy one and expect it to definitely work.
Also note the caveats section of rtwn(4), if it _does_ work it will
not be particularly quick.
If by 300mbps+ you mean you actually want to get 300Mb+ TCP throughput
then I think your options are the newer intel devices (iwm, iwx)
or 11ac bwfm, but iwm/iwx are likely much easier to find. athn is
likely to do better than rtwn but probably not 300+.
> There are a plethora a cheap 1200mbps cards with 8821ce chips.
> Is there inclinations/efforts to add support?
AFAIK the next main target for wifi is ath11k (in particular WCN6855
which is used in various recent laptops including X13s).
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