Re: iwlwifi on FreeBSD 15

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

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7