> Karlo, for the records and the help of others: > > I assume you installed a pkgbase version of FreeBSD but did not install > the firmware-iwm package initially which comes out of pkgbase; would that > be correct?
Yes. I did install a pkgbase version of FreeBSD. I also have firmware-iwm installed, however. I'm pretty sure I did not install it manually afterwards, but during the installation. I'm not sure where to check to confirm that since pkg doesn't seem to log its installs. (?) For anyone stumbling in the same thing - here is the explanation/solution: > In theory *nothing* is needed to load the driver. > > Only the wlan/ifconfig lines in rc.conf and wpa_supplicant.conf need to be > done. > > > > Then run "fwget" to fetch the latest firmware needed, and then reboot. > > fwget has NO idea about iwm. iwm firmware is still in src and not ports! > > > Note: if that firmware would have been present loader.conf does has compat > entry lines for iwm firmware, so even loading iwm from loader should have > worked without anyone noticiing. To make everything work I did exactly as you said should work. The device got matched automatically so the driver was already loaded. Now everything is working. Before, I forgot to check and assumed it wouldn't do that - which was a stupid assumption. To make it work, to /etc/rc.conf I only added: wlans_iwm0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" And added the necessary configuration to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Thank you!
