Please test new drivers in main (iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89)
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:45:39 UTC
Hi, I put updated drivers based on Linux v6.17 (I skipped 6.14 for iwlwifi, and a previously prepared v6.16 for iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89 [1]) so that it would only be one version change to merge in the hope to still get them into FreeBSD 15.0. The uphold was largely due to drm-kmod having conflicting changes in LinuxKPI and a new port release had to be rolled (with people on vacation). By the time this was all sorted we found that nvidia was broken due to soem hand-rolled LinuxKPI PCI glue between native PCI and LinuxKPI PCI. After that got fixed EuroBSDCon happened and I have since been on the road. I have done basic testing for all three drivers (iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89) and got packets going with all of them; I had 6.16 tested a lot more but being on the road I only have limited access to hardware and apparently unplugged some of my test lab at home for other work, which isn't helpful. I am planning to merge the drivers Sun/Mon to stable/15 as well so they could go into 15.0-BETA4 as well if I get at least a "good" from someone for iwlwifi and one for rtw89. iwlwifi has seen some rather large reshuffeling in 6.16/6.17 splitting up the mvm and the mld driver with the latter being the 11be supporting hardware like BE200 (which we supported for 1.5 years or so now as part of mvm). In FreeBSD it still only presents itself as "if_iwlwifi" having it all on and included for now. If you want to test rtw88 it seems you can authenticate/associate but it may take some time so just let it sit (or restart wpa_supplicant after a minute) and see. I am working on that. I did manage to assoc and pass packets. I beleive the 8822BE ones might be worst and 8821C be a bit better, while 8822C probably just works? Firmware updates to ports will follow eventually but do not seem urgent. Please be preared to be able to roll-back in case you are hitting severe problems as I will be on the road next week and have a very high response time. Let's just hope this won't happen :) Lots of joy, Bjoern [1] https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/86 -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7