Re: Please test iwlwifi/rtw88/rtw89 now

From: Tilman_Keskinöz <arved_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:59:32 UTC
On 9/2/25 23:06, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

> with the changes (especially for scanning--rtw88) and all the other
> minor details gone in the last days I would love to ask people to test
> as much as they can on main before I'll merge to stable/14 and also
> given stable/15 is imminent.
>
Everything seems to work fine.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD lenovo 15.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 15.0-PRERELEASE 
main-n280032-bc222e96d135 GENERIC amd64

$ pciconf -lv rtw890@pci0:3:0:0
rtw890@pci0:3:0:0:class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec 
device=0x8852 subvendor=0x17aa subdevice=0
x4852
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
    device     = 'RTL8852AE 802.11ax PCIe Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = networ

$ dmesg | grep rtw
rtw890: <rtw89_8852ae> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfd400000-0xfd4fffff at 
device 0.0 on pci3
rtw890: successfully loaded firmware image 'rtw89/rtw8852a_fw.bin'
rtw890: loaded firmware rtw89/rtw8852a_fw.bin
rtw890: Firmware version 0.13.36.0 (c33d3f88), cmd version 0, type 1
rtw890: Firmware version 0.13.36.0 (c33d3f88), cmd version 0, type 3
rtw890: chip rfe_type is 1
rtw890: rfkill hardware state changed to enable

$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=0
ether 14:5a:fc:44:2a:51
inet 192.168.1.26 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
groups: wlan
ssid ubi5g.arved.priv.at channel 44 (5220 MHz 11a) bssid 78:8a:20:4a:35:c0
regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 3:128-bit AES-CCM ucast:128-bit txpower 17
bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 wme roaming MANUAL
parent interface: rtw890
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11a
status: associated
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

$ iperf -c 192.168.1.11
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.11, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 32.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  1] local 192.168.1.26 port 36045 connected with 192.168.1.11 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  1] 0.00-10.06 sec  16.9 MBytes  14.1 Mbits/sec