Re: Wi-Fi 5(802.11ac) Wireless-AC 9x6x [Thunder Peak]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2026, LuMiWa wrote:

Hallo,

> I am running FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE and for now I am using iwm driver or better more
> or less I am using Ethernet because I have 0.5 G and WiFi is compare to Ethernet
> very slow.
> And my question is does iwlwifi support my card because I was not
> successful with settings.
> My card on Lenovo Thinkpad 495 is:
>
> pciconf -l | grep iwm
> iwm0@pci0:1:0:0:        class=0x028000 rev=0x29 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x2526
> subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0014

From all I can say it should.  But beware that you won't get better throughput
as with iwm as we do not support 11n and 11ac on the older chipsets (which would need
dedicated rate select code).

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7