Re: Support for Intel AX201

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:38:45 UTC
On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, jbo@insane.engineer wrote:

> On Saturday, March 1st, 2025 at 20:55, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You simply run
>> fwget
>> these days and it will install the right firmware package.
>>
>> If you want to build it yourself fwget -n would show you which flavour
>> it would install for you. Altneratively man iwlwififw can ell you if
>> you check yout PCI IDs from pciconf -l output yourself.
>> Lastly loading the iwlwifi driver would tell and complain which firmware
>> it cannot find.
>>
>> That said you'll likely want the 22000 flavour.
>>
>> In the unlikely chance the firmware is missing currently, I have a task
>> for next week to fix some of that; see
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=284475
>>
>> Hope that helps, otherwise please let me know.
>
> That seems to work.
> fwget indeed suggested the 22000 flavor (for my AX201).
>
> dmesg reports:
>
> iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode'
> iwl-debug-yoyo.bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwl-debug-yoyo.bin either
> iwl-debug-yoyo.bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwl-debug-yoyo.bin either
> iwl-debug-yoyo_bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwl-debug-yoyo_bin either
> iwl_debug_yoyo_bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwl_debug_yoyo_bin either
> iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 77.2df8986f.0 QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode op_mode iwlmvm

Great, let us know if hw_crypto and HT/VHT work (see the other threads
going on here in parallel).

Lots of joy,
Bjoern

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7