Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:10:21 +0300 From: Oleksandr Kryvulia <shuriku@shurik.kiev.ua> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status-report 11ac, Intel - request for testing Intel Wireless PCI attach Message-ID: <e9f81e74-d02d-38e1-bb9c-2189a7e32f47@shurik.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <E236651C-0E4B-418D-A41E-B598A9FF755B@FreeBSD.org> References: <E236651C-0E4B-418D-A41E-B598A9FF755B@FreeBSD.org>
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04.07.20 18:34, Bjoern A. Zeeb пишет: > Hi, > > it’s about time for an update on the Intel WiFi and 11ac client project. > > As you can read in the 2020Q2 status report [2] (once its out) as well, > the decision was to port over the dual-licensed native Linux driver > under BSD license and using linuxkpi rather than extending iwm(4) as > a first step. > > By now most of the lower bits work fine enough so that we attach, can > load and run the firmware. There is NO WIFI in this snapshot yet. > > If you currently have a supported iwm(4) or unsupported Intel Wireless > card of the 7k/8k/9k/22k series (not the iwn(4) models) and want to help > testing you can use the branch at > > https://github.com/bzfbd/freebsd-base/tree/iwlwifi > > which is a FreeBSD CURRENT from July 4th, or download the last two commit > from there and apply them locally to your tree, compile, install, and > boot the new kernel, and then > > kldload if_iwl > > The driver will not be loaded automatically for you as we already do for > other drivers to avoid problems or conflicts. Firmware will be loaded > automatically for you when you load the driver. You’ll hopefully see a > message (with a typo or two) like: > > # kldload if_iwl > HOORAY IWLWIFI LOADED. Check dmesg for: > iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version ...ucode op_mode iwlmvm > iwlwifi0: Detected.. > iwlwifi0: base HW address.. > lines. If you cannot find them please report back. > # > > If you don’t get this printed something went wrong. Hi, installing kernel ends with errors (I build only kernel): ldxref /boot/kernel kldxref: error while reading /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode.ko: Bad address kldxref: error while reading /boot/kernel/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode.ko: Bad address And loading module does not do anything: 49 1 0xffffffff83815000 6cc10 if_iwl.ko (/boot/kernel/if_iwl.ko) Contains modules: Id Name
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