rtwn_pci(4)

rtwn_pci4

Realtek wireless rtwn network driver pci/pcie support

Usage

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

device rtwn device rtwn_pci device pci device wlan

Overview

The rtwn_pci driver provides support for PCIe wireless network devices to the rtwn(4) driver.

Both RTL8188CE and RTL8188EE are highly integrated 802.11n adapters that combines a MAC, a 1T1R capable baseband and an RF in a single chip. They are operate in the 2GHz spectrum only.

Hardware

The rtwn_pci driver supports the following PCIe Wi-Fi devices:

  • Realtek 802.11n wireless 8188 (RTL8188EE)

  • Realtek 802.11n wireless 8192 (RTL8192CE)

Releases

20 releases since FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE; the text changed 7 times.

  1. 12.0
  2. 12.1
  3. 12.2
  4. 12.3
  5. 12.4
  6. 13.0–13.2
  7. 13.3–14.1
  8. 14.2–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.