I saw that previous report but hoped it was something else since that was with an unsupported cpu. Thanks for the information.
I did attempt to use DragonflyBsd, but when booting, it hangs on "initializing random seed" with this board. On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 05:11 Stefan Sperling <s...@stsp.name> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:43:50PM -0500, Alex Elizalde wrote: > > Recently installed OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 and ran fw_update and syspatch. > > Attempting to use the wireless card fails with the following messages: > > iwm0: hw rev 0x220, fw ver 22.361476.0, address 10:f0:05:8f:42:8d > > iwm0: fatal firmware error > > iwm0: could not load firmware > > iwm0: could not load firmware > > It seems support for 3168 chips was committed without prior testing. > My guess is that only 8165 chips (the full-featured variant of 3168) > were actually tested. > > So I don't believe these have ever worked. I just noticed there were > similar > reports before, e.g. > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151060853207531&w=2 > It seems this card isn't very common. > > This will need someone with hardware and time and skills to debug it. > I don't have the hardware and don't I have much time spare at the moment. > > Until this problem gets fixed, and unless someone speaks up who has a > working > 3168 device, it seems we should prevent the driver from attaching to this > chip. > > Something you could test is whether DragonflyBSD supports this chip > properly. > Support for 8265/3168 chips was ported over from there. > If it works in DragonflyBSD we at least have a good reference and there > would be less work involved in figuring out how to make it work. > Although, their commit log doesn't inspire confidence: > > commit 0ce37bc4c6e593a32c291a336cded0c296f4f50b > Author: Imre Vadász <i...@vdsz.com> > Date: Fri Nov 11 21:09:05 2016 +0100 > > if_iwm - Attach to new AC3168 and AC8265 chipsets (untested). > >
