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Special Forums Hardware Problematic RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter Post 302945145 by RogerBaran on Tuesday 26th of May 2015 01:51:37 PM
Old 05-26-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
It may not be possible to fix a buggy driver by fiddling with a buggy driver. The problem may be the driver itself. A kernel upgrade might help or might not, but would be rather drastic.
lol yep. I think you are right! Smilie
Well, it looks like my options are to:
1. Wait it out -- maybe they will get this eventually straightened out,
2. Replace the wifi card in the laptop to a known good one
3. Get a different laptop
4. Live with it

I couldn't change some of the parameters using modprobe -- they wouldn't take.

---------- Post updated at 12:51 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:47 PM ----------

@Corona688
Thanks for your help. I like working things out and having someone there to bounce ideas off of as I work toward a resolution.

By the way, I did get my disaster recovery script almost finished -- turns out I do not have to create all of the partitions from scratch using sgdisk... Smilie
 

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ACPI_SONY(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 					      ACPI_SONY(4)

NAME
acpi_sony -- ACPI notebook controller driver for Sony laptops SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file: device acpi_sony Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): acpi_sony_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The acpi_sony driver provides support for the notebook controller in Sony laptops. Note that not all features will work on all laptop mod- els. SYSCTLS
The following sysctl nodes are currently implemented: dev.acpi_sony.0.brightness Current brightness level of the display. dev.acpi_sony.0.brightness_default Default brightness level of the display (survives reboot). dev.acpi_sony.0.contrast Current contrast level of the display. dev.acpi_sony.0.bass_gain Enable or disable the Bass Gain feature. dev.acpi_sony.0.cdp Turns the CD power on or off. dev.acpi_sony.0.azp Turns the audio power on or off. dev.acpi_sony.0.lnp Turns the wired network interface power on or off. SEE ALSO
acpi(4), sysctl(8) HISTORY
The acpi_sony driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.0. AUTHORS
The acpi_sony driver was written by Takanori Watanabe <takawata@FreeBSD.org>. BSD
February 8, 2010 BSD
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