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

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
> 
I did run test and with iwm driver I had better result, about 25 upload and download
but with iwlwifi I had about 24 downlod and just 4 upload.

Thank you for help.

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