Re: HEADS UP: will remove iwlwifi firmware from src.git (main and stable/14) in April

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, ltning-freebsd-wireless@anduin.net wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I know the firmware crash you reported and along with TKIP that's
the two main (new) things to fix for the moment.  Unfortunately there's been
other regressions (one in net80211 and one outside wireless) which needed
more focus the last days.


> 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

ifconfig will not tell the truth for what the firmware does.  There's a
feedback loop missing in net80211 for that.  Also RX vs. TX can be
different.


> horrendeously slow. Not 1mbit, but effectively maybe 7-8? Has this changed 
> with recent commits?

I thought you said you are back to 55Mbit/s.  Since then nothing
relevant has changed.


> 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 :)

:)  I'll let you know.

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7