intel 3160 wireless card

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 18:56:11 UTC 2016


hi,

Please do test out -HEAD. We're actively working on the intel wifi
drivers there.



-adrian


On 18 September 2016 at 12:00, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 13:35:16 -0400, hot rod wrote:
>> I was curious if the Intel dual band 3160 AC wireless card works out of the
>> box with FreeBSD, or does it take some work to get it working under FreeBSD?
>
> It seems to be possible with the FreeBSD -CURRENT iwm driver,
> as the device is listed in the manpage:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwm&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+12-current&arch=default&format=html
>
> The driver is present (read: "will be present") in FreeBSD 11:
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/11.0/sys/dev/iwm/
>
> FreeBSD 10's -STABLE development branch doesn't seem to have received
> this driver yet, so the current release version probably won't be able
> to support this particular hardware at the moment.
>
> You can find the iwm driver development history here:
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/modules/iwm/?view=log
>
>
>
>
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