Wireless Intel 8260 driver for FreeBSD

[Adrian Chadd]

Hiya,

Have you tried freebsd-11 or -head?

The eventual aim is to get 7260 and 8xxx series support into
freebsd-head and freebsd-11 in the 'iwm' driver.


-a


On 8 November 2016 at 13:20, Subbsd <subbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know about the possibility of using Wireless 8260 ?
> I initially addressed this issue to freebsd at intel.com, but it seems no
> one is home. It is difficult to assume that such a huge and rich
> company like Intel@ can not keep at least one FreeBSD driver developer
> and all the work is done by community (after spending the money to
> purchase equipment ;-)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:40 PM
> Subject: Wireless 8260 driver for FreeBSD
> To: freebsd at intel.com
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've  buy http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i5syk.html
> harware and wish to use this as development desktop platform on my
> office with FreeBSD OS (at the moment i setup FreeBSD 12-CURRENT
> snapshot).
>
> With a big community/developers help via FreeBSD maillist I was able
> successfull to make of the graphics subsystem ( DRM 4.7 from
> dev-branch: https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/wiki
> )
>
> Looks like all other hardware compatible with FreeBSD 12 except
> wirelless devices. I can find any information about Wireless 8260 and
> FreeBSD.
>
> On Intel.com site, i see official FreeBSD ethernet drivers ( em ), but
> can't find any drivers for wireless. Some people indicated to iwn
> driver:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwn&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+12-current&arch=default&format=html
>
> But it not works for me.
>
> My pciconf -vl output from FreeBSD NUC 6i5syk:
>
>
> none5 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x90108086 chip=0x24f38086
> rev=0x3a hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'Wireless 8260'
>     class      = network
>
>
> Where I can find the driver if it exists? Or is there some kind of
> timeline when you plan to upgrade iwn for 8260 ?
>
> Thx!
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