On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I put updated drivers based on Linux v6.17 (I skipped 6.14 for iwlwifi, and
> a previously prepared v6.16 for iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89 [1]) so that it would
> only
> be one version change to merge in the hope to still get them into FreeBSD
> 15.0.
>
> The uphold was largely due to drm-kmod having conflicting changes in LinuxKPI
> and
> a new port release had to be rolled (with people on vacation). By the time
> this
> was all sorted we found that nvidia was broken due to soem hand-rolled
> LinuxKPI
> PCI glue between native PCI and LinuxKPI PCI. After that got fixed EuroBSDCon
> happened and I have since been on the road.
>
> I have done basic testing for all three drivers (iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89) and
> got
> packets going with all of them; I had 6.16 tested a lot more but being on the
> road I only have limited access to hardware and apparently unplugged some of
> my
> test lab at home for other work, which isn't helpful.
>
> I am planning to merge the drivers Sun/Mon to stable/15 as well so they could
> go into 15.0-BETA4 as well if I get at least a "good" from someone for iwlwifi
> and one for rtw89.
>
> iwlwifi has seen some rather large reshuffeling in 6.16/6.17 splitting up the
> mvm and the mld driver with the latter being the 11be supporting hardware like
> BE200 (which we supported for 1.5 years or so now as part of mvm). In FreeBSD
> it still only presents itself as "if_iwlwifi" having it all on and included
> for
> now.
>
> If you want to test rtw88 it seems you can authenticate/associate but it may
> take
> some time so just let it sit (or restart wpa_supplicant after a minute) and
> see.
> I am working on that. I did manage to assoc and pass packets. I beleive the
> 8822BE ones might be worst and 8821C be a bit better, while 8822C probably
> just
> works?
rtw88: unfortunately still no luck after approximately 30 minutes of
attempts to associate
wpa_supplicant restart did not help either
rtw880@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor=0x10ec device=0xc821 subvendor=0x1a3b subdevice=0x3040
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter'
class = network
>
> Firmware updates to ports will follow eventually but do not seem urgent.
>
>
> Please be preared to be able to roll-back in case you are hitting severe
> problems as I will be on the road next week and have a very high response
> time. Let's just hope this won't happen :)
>
> Lots of joy,
> Bjoern
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/86
>
> --
> Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
>
