Re: [Guide] Fast & Stable WiFi with wifibox on FreeBSD

Thanks for that Pali. Yup, you are right about the chip specific wifibox packages. In my guide I recommend the generic one for a few reasons:

1. It's simpler to remember (regardless of what machine you are on.
2. Other people reading my guide and adapting it to their needs won't need to also think about their specific drivers either. Reducing burden on the user.

(Space isn't really a concern for me for just firmware files haha).

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On Jul 27, 2022, 14:59, Páli Gábor wrote:

> Hi Jonathan, Le mer. 27 juil. 2022 à 17:21, Jonathan Vasquez  a écrit : > I've written a new "quick" guide on getting Wifibox running on 13.1-STABLE (while we wait for the native iwlwifi driver to be fully implemented and stable, thanks Bjoern :D!) Thanks for writing up this guide. Let me add that Wifibox is not specific to iwlwifi, there are many other flavors as well that you can see at FreshPorts, for example: https://www.freshports.org/net/wifibox For iwlwifi, actually, it is better to use the wifibox-iwlwifi package because it contains only the firmware files relevant for Intel devices. On top of that, one can even build it from port by setting the FIRMWARE_FILES make(1) variable to narrow it to the one for the card on the system: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port#installation This way I was able to build a customized wifibox-alpine-iwlwifi package of the size of ~12 MB (c.f. wifibox-alpine: ~119 MB, wifibox-alpine-iwlwifi: ~83 MB -- Intel firmware files are quite big). This solution was proven to be working with MediaTek MT7921K, Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174, and also Realtek RTL8821CE. Bjoern's work in the rtw88 area will probably take care of this last one, but I am not aware of any on-going project for improving on Atheros and providing support for MediaTek. Also, there is no plan to support FreeBSD 12 for iwlwifi (as far as I know), while I can make it work with the help of Wifibox. Cheers, Gábor