Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 17:33:44 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> To: Zachary Storer <zacts.3.14159@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwlwifi on FreeBSD 15 Message-ID: <r927s6rp-249r-349p-n327-9855o16054r8@mnoonqbm.arg> In-Reply-To: <CAAehmOFFvWUi6bRAKzNNzg7moFGhMzH1FzEv1ahKQDrHB%2BanNQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAAehmOFFvWUi6bRAKzNNzg7moFGhMzH1FzEv1ahKQDrHB%2BanNQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2025, Zachary Storer wrote: Hi Zak, > I was told to post to this mailing list from the Discord help chat. > > I recently installed a pre-release version of FreeBSD-15 on a new laptop. Did you during install, also install firmware? There's a step in the menu for that. I am aware it was broken in case of a manual (ZFS) paritioning or something [someone else dealt with this]. > I was initially unable to get the iwlwifi wireless working, but I > found a fix that worked for me. > > According to dmesg I have: iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz. > > Initially it wouldn't connect even with the latest FreeBSD firmware for it. Ok. > I plugged in a separate run0 usb wifi device and then downloaded > linux-firmware.git. > I copied the firmware from there into /boot/firmware/ and rebooted, > and the iwlwifi device can connect now. > > I hope this is useful. Can you sow me the dmesg entry detailing which firmware it laoded? Should be somewhere below the line you pasted above. I do have an update for firmware pending here but so far was only aware of problems with BE200 but not with CNVio2 AX210 versions: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53681 Thanks a lot for letting me know that there's another problem. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
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