wifi unsupported?

[Mayuresh Kathe]

got myself a new (low-cost) 'hp' laptop, primarily because of it's small 
sized screen and also because of the awesome (9 hours) battery life.

was running windows10, erazed it by installing ubuntu17.04 desktop 
edition.
all was well under ubuntu, everything worked just fine, but the network 
(only has wifi, no wired) interfaces aren't detected under either of 
freebsd 11.x and 12.

relevant linux dmesg below (got it by doing 'dmesg | grep wifi');

dmesg for wifi begins ----------------
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[   16.497255] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
iwlwifi-3168-26.ucode failed with error -2
[   16.497286] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
iwlwifi-3168-25.ucode failed with error -2
[   16.511332] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
iwlwifi-3168-24.ucode failed with error -2
[   16.511382] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
iwlwifi-3168-23.ucode failed with error -2
[   16.541303] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 22.361476.0 
op_mode iwlmvm
[   16.579626] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band 
Wireless AC 3168, REV=0x220
[   16.582170] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   16.582788] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   16.996117] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0
[   19.570370] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   19.571032] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   19.608065] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   19.608839] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   19.645722] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   19.646341] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   19.682675] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
[   19.683719] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
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dmesg for wifi ends ------------------

hope i can be helped, am eager to run freebsd instead of linux.

thanks,

~mayuresh