Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)

[clutton]

On Sun, 2018-01-07 at 22:28 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> On 7. Jan 2018, at 21:32, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.d
> nsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > On 7. Jan 2018, at 20:43, clutton <clutton at zoho.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, 2017-12-30 at 15:58 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Running carbon 5th gen I can't call my setup a success.
> > > > Wireless iwm
> > > > doesn't support even N and AC is not supported at all. The wifi
> > > > is much
> > > > slower then on my old machines. I'm going to replace the wifi
> > > > card in
> > > > mean time, any suggestions which one to buy?
> > > > 
> > > > Graphics works perfectly. NVMe SSD with OPAL wouldn't allow
> > > > machine to
> > > > resume from sleep, sometimes it does after big timeout and
> > > > writing
> > > > errors to console, sometime it just reboots.
> > > > 
> > > > Thinkpad Thunderbolt Dock Station, here is where things get
> > > > interesting. If I boot machine connected to dock station,
> > > > peripheral
> > > > devices would work, external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
> > > > There's no
> > > > other way I know to make it work. Once detached - it wouldn't
> > > > see
> > > > devices again. Booting and THEN attaching - the same, machine
> > > > wouldn't
> > > > see devices.
> > > > 
> > > > Here is the device being seen (a lot of pcib*):
> > > > pcib5 at pci0:6:0:0:    class=0x060400 card=0x11112222
> > > > chip=0x15d38086
> > > > rev=0x02 hdr=0x01
> > > >   vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> > > >   device     = 'JHL6540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge (C step) [Alpine
> > > > Ridge
> > > > 4C 2016]'
> > > >   class      = bridge
> > > >   subclass   = PCI-PCI
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > For me the main concern is Thunderbolt thought, docking station
> > > > is
> > > > amazing thing. Any ideas and thought how to make it work would
> > > > be
> > > > highly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > In my setup, plug/unplug events for display port don't work when
> > > docking (usually I'm not using a dock though). This means: Mouse,
> > > Keyboard can be plugged/unplugged as many time as I want at any
> > > point, while displays connected over display port only work when
> > > connected before starting X (and they don't disappear after
> > > disconnecting). Note that stopping X seems to fix this (so no
> > > reboot required), but I don't have the docking station myself
> > > (this is the Ultra Dock Pro or something - the one that connects
> > > at the bottom of the laptop).
> > > 
> > > Also, in my setup wifi didn't work without adding iwm0 explicitly
> > > to cloned interfaces (which isn't something I wouldn't expect I
> > > have to do, but in this case I had to).
> > 
> > Did you have a
> >    wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
> > in /etc/rc.conf?   
> > I do not know or see why putting iwm0 in cloned would do much of
> > anything
> > for a wlan device.
> > 
> > Also note that is wlans as in plural, not wlan_iwm0.  A mistake I
> > often make from finger memory.
> > 
> 
> I have
> 
> wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP country de"
> 
> in rc.conf. Without adding
> 
> cloned_interfaces="iwm0"
> 
> wlan0 never shows up in ifconfig and wpa_supplicant never starts
> (that's current r326912, setup like described in my blog post).
> 
> I just double checked to confirm the behavior.

loader.conf
if_iwm_load="YES"
iwm8265fw_load="YES"

Have you loaded the driver? Maybe cloned_iface did this for you.
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