Returning to BSD after 25 years (altho' MacOS is not that far away from BSD) I've had to settle on Debian to get some work done. I've got FreeBSD_12.1_RELEASE running in VirtualBox and I can run nearly all the user applications I need. But when attempting to install on bare metal it seems I may have made a bad choice of hardware: Huawei Matebook-13S. The graphics ought to be covered by the i915 included in graphics/drm-kmod, but to get there I need a network connection. Yes I've got a TL-WN723N-v2 usb dongle but I don't want to start thread drift about that. I'm not really a programmer, only a part-time masseuse of Makefiles... I've started to read Thread a-guide-for-intel-wireless-adapter-ac-9260-and-9560-driver-installation-on-freebsd-12-1.74475 I'd like to offer myself for beta testing or any other useful thing I could do, am I presumptuous in thinking 9260 is replaced by 9df0 on my system? Or should I just sit and wait as suggested by rtw88: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter support ? fwiw my wifi reports itself as
Code:
$ pciconf -lcvV
...
none4@pci0:0:20:3: class=ox028000 card=0x20348086 chip=0x9df08086 rev=0x30 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Cannon Point-LP CNV1 [ Wireless-AC ]
class = network
cap 01[c8] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0
cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
cap 10[40] = PCI-Express 2 root end point max data 128(128) FLR RO NS
cap 11[80] = MSI-X supports 16 messages, enabled
Table in map 0x10[0x2000], PBA in map 0x10[0x3000]
ecap 0000[100] = unknown 0
ecap 0018[14c] = LTR 1
ecap 000b[164] = Vendor 1 ID 16
...
lspci -vv
on Debian gives the same, maybe more, in a different language...