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Manual Start Wifi with a USB Dongle on Raspberry Pi 4B

My Manual Wifi notes Note that the TP Link TL-WN823N rtl8192eu chip, has driver problems and does not connect with a Wifi Access Point using the wpa_supplicant program. The "ifconfig wlan0 up scan"  does work to view nearby access points. # edit 3 Files to add configuration lines into /boot/loader.conf /etc/rc.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf # for the file  /boot/loader.conf # using Keyboard, change into the 'root' user, before editing.  on a stock FreeBSD snapshot the sudo command is not installed su - root_password #use the ee or vi editor to edit the file /boot/loader.conf ee /boot/loader.conf if_rtwn_load="YES" if_rtwn_usb_load="YES" legal.realtek.license_ack=1 # /etc/rc.conf add 2 lines for TP Link TL-WN823N rtl8192eu chip wlans_rtwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_rtwn0="SYNC DHCP" Bare minimum fields necessary for an encrypted Wi-Fi connection using wpa_supplicant command. Edit file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf network={     #: my NetGe...

April 1 2021, config.txt changes Raspi FreeBSD image

Original config.txt Contents https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/  File to download https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20210401-4084b1ab041-245766.img.xz cat /media/BOOT/config.txt [all] arm_64bit=1 dtparam=audio=on,i2c_arm=on,spi=on dtoverlay=mmc dtoverlay=disable-bt device_tree_address=0x4000 kernel=u-boot.bin [pi4] hdmi_safe=1 armstub=armstub8-gic.bin hope@localhost ~/a/april1> ls -l /media/BOOT/config.txt -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  177 Mar 31 23:41 /media/BOOT/config.txt*   grep config boot*       177  20ab45202003d40ef7b82a0d213745ca  config.txt    Modify config.txt file to match [pi4] #hdmi_safe=1 #overscan_left=1 # 1080p screen  1920x1080 pixel screen size hdmi_group=1 hdmi_mode=16  SUCCESS!  Raspberry Pi 4B with 8gigs booted up. Yeah! Now for setting up a desktop environment, or g...