On Mon, 21 Mar 2022, FreeBSD User wrote: Dear "FreeBSD User",
Subject is a notebook Lenovo E540 equipted with an Intel i7260 WiFi adaptor, iwm0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x73 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x08b2 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x4262 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Wireless 7260'
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Running FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE (FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE #86 stable/13-n250051-ddb842e2ad6: Sun Mar 20 20:49:26 CET 2022 amd64), using if_iwm is a horrible mess and almost unusable (configured both re0 and wlan0 as "lagg0").
"horrible mess" doesn't describe an actual problem. "almost unusable" doesn't say "why?"
I tried - several time since iwlwifi is available for FreeBSD 13, iwlwifi, but without any success.
Likely iwlwiifi will not be any better as is iwm(4) at this point; porbbaly for different reasons.
I have to load if_iwlwifi.ko via /boo/loader.conf[.local], since outoloading iwlwifi does not work by defining
What does `man iwlwifi` say on your system on how to load iwlwifi currently? As a note, as the above will change in the next days for stable/13: given you have a card also supported by iwm(4), you probably want to have a look at devmatch_blocklist=".." in rc.conf[.local] to avoid loading that. In HEAD iwlwifi(4) will auto-load, but iwm(4) will stay preferred over iwlwifi(4) if your device is supported by iwm(4) and that change will come to stable/13 as well. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
