On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I put updated drivers based on Linux v6.17 (I skipped 6.14 for iwlwifi, and > a previously prepared v6.16 for iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89 [1]) so that it > would only > be one version change to merge in the hope to still get them into FreeBSD > 15.0. > > The uphold was largely due to drm-kmod having conflicting changes in > LinuxKPI and > a new port release had to be rolled (with people on vacation). By the > time this > was all sorted we found that nvidia was broken due to soem hand-rolled > LinuxKPI > PCI glue between native PCI and LinuxKPI PCI. After that got fixed > EuroBSDCon > happened and I have since been on the road. > > I have done basic testing for all three drivers (iwlwifi, rtw88, rtw89) > and got > packets going with all of them; I had 6.16 tested a lot more but being on > the > road I only have limited access to hardware and apparently unplugged some > of my > test lab at home for other work, which isn't helpful. > > I am planning to merge the drivers Sun/Mon to stable/15 as well so they > could > go into 15.0-BETA4 as well if I get at least a "good" from someone for > iwlwifi > and one for rtw89. > > iwlwifi has seen some rather large reshuffeling in 6.16/6.17 splitting up > the > mvm and the mld driver with the latter being the 11be supporting hardware > like > BE200 (which we supported for 1.5 years or so now as part of mvm). In > FreeBSD > it still only presents itself as "if_iwlwifi" having it all on and > included for > now. > > If you want to test rtw88 it seems you can authenticate/associate but it > may take > some time so just let it sit (or restart wpa_supplicant after a minute) > and see. > I am working on that. I did manage to assoc and pass packets. I beleive > the > 8822BE ones might be worst and 8821C be a bit better, while 8822C probably > just > works? > > Firmware updates to ports will follow eventually but do not seem urgent. > > > Please be preared to be able to roll-back in case you are hitting severe > problems as I will be on the road next week and have a very high response > time. Let's just hope this won't happen :) > > Lots of joy, > Bjoern > > > [1] https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/86 > > -- > Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7 > Bjoern, this repeats much of a private message as I decided to get this into the thread. Excuse the repeated information. Just updated my kernel to main-n281404-f1cb4e9962d7: Sat Oct 25 14:57:35 PDT 2025. Boot was fine. For a change, the network start showed the interface coming up and staying up instead of going UP, then DOWN and, after 3 por 4 seconds going UP again. Only a single boot, so maybe it was a fluke. Still see a couple of errors, but those are the same as always and seem to not cause any issues. starting wpa_supplicant. iwlwifi0: lkpi_sta_scan_to_auth:2415: lvif 0xfffffe0162534000 vap 0xfffffe0162534010 iv_bss 0xfffffe0162542000 lvif_bss 0 lvif_bss->ni 0 synched 0, ni 0xfffffe0162616000 lsta 0xfffff8000326f800 iwlwifi0: lkpi_sta_a_to_a:2718: lvif 0xfffffe0162534000 vap 0xfffffe0162534010 iv_bss 0xfffffe0162542000 lvif_bss 0xfffff8000326f800 lvif_bss->ni 0xfffffe0162616000 synched 0 iwlwifi0: lkpi_iv_newstate: error 95 during state transition 2 (AUTH) -> 2 (AUTH) Invalid TXQ id iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu:1280: fc 0x00b0 tid 8 txq_id 65535 mvm 0xfffffe016202f588 skb 0xfffffe0162887a60 { len 30 } info 0xfffffe00eace9cc0 sta 0xfffff8000326f9c0 (see PR 274382) Running very well, though still slow downloads. I keep hoping for something better. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
