Re: HEADS UP: will remove iwlwifi firmware from src.git (main and stable/14) in April
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:28:56 UTC
On 19.03.2025 18:55, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > * What's your bonus? > > If you have't already tried yourself, the updated port will also turn on > HT and VHT by default for iwlwifi chipsets 22000, ax210, and bz (that's > AX200 and newer) on both main and stable/14. > Reports so far have been encouraging enough from some people who've been > testing during the last weeks (the rough edges being sorted step but > step now). For more information about how to test, about older chipsets, > or other drivers see the wireless mailing list archive[2] of this year > and the FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Project on github [3] for links to the > postings. Hola! As reported in a different thread, the HT/VHT support is pretty much useless on my Framework 13: iwlwifi0@pci0:170:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x1a hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x2725 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0020 Running: FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #13 main-91d8ee3579ef: Wed Mar 19 22:09:48 CET 2025 It will connect and work (fast) for a while (few hours, tops), then stop working (see dmesg of when this happened). Laptop was idle at the time. I'm now back on 11g/11a, and even here I'm limited to 1Mbps(!) according to the ifconfig output. And this isn't a lie either; it is absolutely horrendeously slow. Not 1mbit, but effectively maybe 7-8? Has this changed with recent commits? At this point - having seen the Grand Prize but unable to attain it, I'm more motivated than ever to do whichever testing necessary to get over this last(?) hurdle :) /Eirik