From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 5 08:16:46 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A011FE30644 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2017 08:16:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayuresh@kathe.in) Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (relay4-d.mail.gandi.net [IPv6:2001:4b98:c:538::196]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69CAA64E69 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2017 08:16:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayuresh@kathe.in) Received: from webmail.gandi.net (webmail4-d.mgt.gandi.net [10.58.1.144]) (Authenticated sender: mayuresh@kathe.in) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E552D172094 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2017 10:16:43 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:46:43 +0530 From: Mayuresh Kathe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wifi unsupported? Reply-To: mayuresh@kathe.in Mail-Reply-To: mayuresh@kathe.in Message-ID: X-Sender: mayuresh@kathe.in User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:16:46 -0000 got myself a new (low-cost) 'hp' laptop, primarily because of it's small sized screen and also because of the awesome (9 hours) battery life. was running windows10, erazed it by installing ubuntu17.04 desktop edition. all was well under ubuntu, everything worked just fine, but the network (only has wifi, no wired) interfaces aren't detected under either of freebsd 11.x and 12. relevant linux dmesg below (got it by doing 'dmesg | grep wifi'); dmesg for wifi begins ---------------- -------------------------------------- [ 16.497255] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3168-26.ucode failed with error -2 [ 16.497286] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3168-25.ucode failed with error -2 [ 16.511332] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3168-24.ucode failed with error -2 [ 16.511382] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-3168-23.ucode failed with error -2 [ 16.541303] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.361476.0 op_mode iwlmvm [ 16.579626] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 3168, REV=0x220 [ 16.582170] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 16.582788] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 16.996117] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0 [ 19.570370] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 19.571032] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 19.608065] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 19.608839] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 19.645722] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 19.646341] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 19.682675] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 19.683719] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled -------------------------------------- dmesg for wifi ends ------------------ hope i can be helped, am eager to run freebsd instead of linux. thanks, ~mayuresh