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Date:      Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:15:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      doug@safeport.com
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: iwm drives does not work for Intel Wireless-AC 3165
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1711251508310.15572@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1711251436450.72866@bucksport.safeport.com>
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, DTD wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Nov 2017, Sebastian Schwarz wrote:
>
>> On 2017-11-25, Sebastian Schwarz wrote:
>>> Unfortunately the Handbook is not as clear on the WLAN setup as
>>> it could be.
>> 
>> Actually it now is.  I even checked that before sending.  But
>> then hit I "send" instead of "discard message"... :/  I'm sorry
>> for the spam.
>> 
>> There is one thing I can contribute though:
>> 
>> On 2017-11-25, DTD wrote:
>>> This I think is an error as RGEPHY(4): rgephy - RealTek
>>> RTL8168/8169/8110/8211 series 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet PHY
>>> driver.  It should be iwm0 I would think.  Anyway it can not
>>> be configured.
>> 
>> As mentioned in the handbook check the output of "sysctl
>> net.wlan.devices" to see the correct name of your WLAN devices.
>
> Bingo!!!   <8)
>
> root@mneme:~ # sysctl net.wlan.devices
> net.wlan.devices: iwm0

Hopfully this will save someone. I had an error in /boot/loader.conf. It did not 
show in vi but when I was following Sebastian's instructions and they did not 
work I did a kldstat when sysctl net.wlan.devices showed nothing.



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