On Sun, 30 Nov 2025, Zachary Storer wrote:
Hi Zak,
I was told to post to this mailing list from the Discord help chat.
I recently installed a pre-release version of FreeBSD-15 on a new laptop.
Did you during install, also install firmware? There's a step in the menu
for that. I am aware it was broken in case of a manual (ZFS) paritioning
or something [someone else dealt with this].
I was initially unable to get the iwlwifi wireless working, but I
found a fix that worked for me.
According to dmesg I have: iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz.
Initially it wouldn't connect even with the latest FreeBSD firmware for it.
Ok.
I plugged in a separate run0 usb wifi device and then downloaded
linux-firmware.git.
I copied the firmware from there into /boot/firmware/ and rebooted,
and the iwlwifi device can connect now.
I hope this is useful.
Can you sow me the dmesg entry detailing which firmware it laoded?
Should be somewhere below the line you pasted above.
I do have an update for firmware pending here but so far was only aware of
problems with BE200 but not with CNVio2 AX210 versions:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53681
Thanks a lot for letting me know that there's another problem.
/bz
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Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
