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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2017 01:29:38 -0700
From:      "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com>
To:        mayuresh@kathe.in
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: wifi unsupported?
Message-ID:  <CALeGphwnUFR0zjEgYn6G5OLu1v9P9=avTavRKbepKETiW1ZLmg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d2f6c76f11687fc594504737d48af91c@kathe.in>
References:  <d2f6c76f11687fc594504737d48af91c@kathe.in>

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Should be supported, see https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwm&sektion=4

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:
> 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 ----------------
> --------------------------------------
> [   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
> --------------------------------------
> dmesg for wifi ends ------------------
>
> hope i can be helped, am eager to run freebsd instead of linux.
>
> thanks,
>
> ~mayuresh
>
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