On Mon, 1 Dec 2025, Karlo Miličević wrote:
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. (?)
Hmm,
did you only enable
if_iwm="YES"
in loader.conf initially then and not, e.g.,
iwm9260fw_load="YES"
as well (depending on card, there a list in man 4 iwm).
For anyone stumbling in the same thing - here is the explanation/solution:
Thanks for confirming and replying to this. Indeed anyone finding this,
follow to the below (and forget the above):
(*) I am making a mental note to update the man page.
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!
Enjoy! And incase of problems, the wireless mailing list is your friend :)
/bz
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