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

On Wed, 8 Jul 2026, LuMiWa wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 23:24:13 +0000 (UTC)
> "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
> Thank you for the answers.
> Looks like it works but I didn't try to check speed yet.
> Should I put in /boot/loader.conf/dvmatch_blocklist="if_iwm", please?

If you want to use iwlwifi instead of iwm, then you do not need to add iwm to the blocklist.
All you have to do (in case you do) is stop loading if_iwm from loader.conf.

iwlwifi will take precedence over iwm.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7