Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:27:01 -0500 (EST) From: DTD <support@safeport.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: iwm drives does not work for Intel Wireless-AC 3165 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1711251316400.72866@bucksport.safeport.com>
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My laptop is a Lenovo ideapad 700. Windows shows 4 networking devices: Intel
wireless bluetooth, Intel blue tooth RFCOMM TDI, Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC
3165, Realtek PCIe GBE controller. I got this system because as of 10.3 FreeBSD
had support for Wireless-AC 3165.
uname -a
FreeBSD mneme.boltsys.com 11.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Nov 14
06:12:40 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
pciconf -lv
pcib1@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x380a17aa chip=0x19018086 rev=0x07
hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16)'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
none5@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x42108086 chip=0x31668086 rev=0x99 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth'
class = network
re0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x004717aa chip=0x816810ec rev=0x15 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
I think the none5@ means the iwm driver does not support this card. I had added
the following to /boot/loader.conf:
if_iwm_load="YES"
iwm3160fw_load="YES"
iwm7260fw_load="YES"
iwm7265fw_load="YES"
iwm8000Cfw_load="YES"
On the next boot that got:
rgephy0: <RTL8251 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
rgephy0: none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX,
100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000ba seT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master,
1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
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.
ifconfig rgephy0 add inet 192.168.2.124 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig: interface rgephy0 does not exist
ifconfig wlan create wlandev inet 192.168.2.124 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured
ifconfig wlan create rgephy0 inet 192.168.2.124 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig: must specify a parent device (wlandev) when creating a wlan device
ifconfig wlan create wlandev rgephy0 inet 192.168.2.124 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured
It seems to be an Intel design requirement to add stuff to invalidate FreeBSD
wireless support. I think FreeBSD 7 or earlier was the last time wifi worked for
me. Anyone know if there are plans to support any of the usb wireless devices?
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Douglas Denault
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