Re: iwlwifi: i7260 does not load firmware properly/wifi not working
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:15:04 UTC
@"FreeBSDUser" maybe try with the iwm driver instead of the iwlwifi one? It works fine for me. The only thing is the firmware loading thing: it does not work for me when I set in /boot/loader.conf iwmfw_load="YES" which for some reason causes error messages about firmware not found. However, explicitly specifying iwmXXXXfw_load="YES" works just fine. @Björn, is this normal (mistake on my side), or could it be considered a bug? @Björn, I have been following this mailing list quietly for a while. Just want to take the opportunity to say you many thanks for your great development work and support! I highly appreciate it! Many thanks! Stefan On 3/21/22, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2022, FreeBSD User wrote: > > Dear "FreeBSD User", > >> Subject is a notebook Lenovo E540 equipted with an Intel i7260 WiFi >> adaptor, >> >> iwm0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x73 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 >> device=0x08b2 >> subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x4262 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' >> device = 'Wireless 7260' > [...] >> Running FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE (FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE #86 >> stable/13-n250051-ddb842e2ad6: Sun >> Mar 20 20:49:26 CET 2022 amd64), using if_iwm is a horrible mess and >> almost unusable >> (configured both re0 and wlan0 as "lagg0"). > > "horrible mess" doesn't describe an actual problem. > "almost unusable" doesn't say "why?" > > >> I tried - several time since iwlwifi is available for FreeBSD 13, iwlwifi, >> but without >> any success. > > Likely iwlwiifi will not be any better as is iwm(4) at this point; > porbbaly for different reasons. > > >> I have to load if_iwlwifi.ko via /boo/loader.conf[.local], since >> outoloading iwlwifi does >> not work by defining > > What does `man iwlwifi` say on your system on how to load iwlwifi > currently? > > > As a note, as the above will change in the next days for stable/13: > > given you have a card also supported by iwm(4), you probably want to > have a look at devmatch_blocklist=".." in rc.conf[.local] to avoid > loading that. > > In HEAD iwlwifi(4) will auto-load, but iwm(4) will stay preferred over > iwlwifi(4) > if your device is supported by iwm(4) and that change will come to > stable/13 > as well. > > /bz > > > -- > Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7 > >