wifi

The FreeBSD Foundation is making significant strides in wireless development, led by Cheng Cui and Bjoern Zeeb. Their primary goals are to fix bugs, stabilize the system, and improve iwlwifi for 802.11ac transfer speeds. Zeeb’s recent contributions have brought stability fixes to native and...

Hi everyone. A common question from FreeBSD users across desktop, server, and vendors is "which chips, NIC, SSD, WiFi, etc. hardware makers consistently offer good FreeBSD support?" This is a priority for me and a first step is to catalog the hardware makers that DO offer good support so the...

First time install of FreeBSD and i'm getting this error when trying to connect to the internet. Any fixes? IMPORTANT NOTE! I am pretty inexperienced with these kinds of operating systems. And generally alot of tech.

I am currently running FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE on a ThinkPad T400. I will often be using my device, when the WiFi will suddenly shut off. i3status reports that it's "down" and wifimgr is blank. I've tried restarting all and any network-related daemons, to no avail, and wifimgr doesn't seem to be...

Hi all, FreeBSD on ARM states that the WiFi chip on the Zero 2W is unsupported ("Unsupported (BCM43438 Driver)"). Just wondering if: a) this is still the case, and if so b) if support is likely to be developed. I am happy to test if needed. In the absence of WiFi connectivity, does anyone...

Hi there. I am struggling with a rather annoying problem. I decided to "dig up" an old minipc, a Dell OptiPlex 3040 micro and install FreeBSD on it. uname -a FreeBSD crap 14.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Dec 11 04:56:01 UTC 2023...

The tl;dr version: For a specific WiFi AP, I can connect directly from the command line but not via wpa_supplicant.conf. That's the puzzle, why won't wpa_supplicant.conf work? The full version: This particular AP does not require a passphrase. Here's the two commands to connect to the WiFi...

So I have installed net-mgmt/networkmgr There's a lack of documentation, though that could just be me. It seems to be a collection of python scripts and a sudo configuration file which get installed in /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d I found the odd historic thread mentioning doas, but it now...

My desktop computer has an "Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth M.2 combo card", which I have no use for (I have a wired connection). I would like to completely disable the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card. How do I configure that in FreeBSD 13.2? Would I be able to reduce energy consumption...

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 13.2. My laptop has an Intel 8260 Wireless-AC adapter. The live install media uses the "iwm" driver by default which does not work with this network adapter (no networks found). The "iwlwifi" driver works fine without issue when I set it up post install. How do I...

I have a wifi card Wi-Fi 6 AX200, but my speed rates are very slow, in average 4.13 Mbits/sec to the router, any idea how to make it work faster? I just upgraded to FreeBSD 14.0-BETA1 but the problem persists iwlwifi0@pci0:8:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x1a hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086...

I don't have a lot of experience with WiFi, but I want to put a switch into an area without a wired network connection. The easiest solution would seem to be a WiFi up-link. There is a Netgear WNDR4300 N750 next door. Are WiFi up-links a proprietary thing -- meaning that I have to buy two...

(I'm running 13.2-STABLE and using the iwlwifi driver on a Dell Precision laptop.) The good news is I managed to make my FreeBSD laptop connect to the eduroam wifi network at work :) Very happy with this. However, in the process I experienced quite a few system crashes/restarts. At the time of...

Hi Everyone, My laptop has both Ethernet and wireless cards, managed by the em(4) and iwn(4) drivers, the latter being associated with wlan0. Normally Ethernet is not connected, and I'm using wifi only. Sometimes I need to transfer a large file on my subnetwork, and for this I'd like to plug...

So, I know that network doesn't work with bhyve and wifi, I'm using a lagg (wlan0 + em0) setup. But does anyone here was able to make jails+vnet work with wifi(in a lagg setup)?

Hi, I am running FreeBSD 13.2-PRERELEASE , I notice that the wifi cad is detected (motherboard ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI)), here the output of pciconf: iwlwifi0@pci0:6:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x1a hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x2723 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0084 vendor =...

Wireless card: BCM43225 FreeBSD version: 13.1-RELEASE Kernel built with BWN_GPL_PHY option Hello, so basically after I suspend/resume, it can't connect to wifi. Here's what I tried: 1. Networkmgr's GUI. It has button "Enable wifi", which doesn't do anything (and prints "service netif status not...

Hello. I'm trying to get wifi working on my laptop Samsung 700Z3A with a broadcom wifi adapter. sysctl net.wlan.devices finds no adapters (and ifconfig doesn't find it either). So that's where my adventure starts. Here's a list of what's given: if_bwn is loaded laptop's model is samsung...

Hi everyone, I have got an old laptop (hp pavillon dv7) on which I am dual booting Linux (artix) and Freebsd 13.1. My wireless chipset is a Broadcom 4312. I did some researchs on the forum, found all the required information and did my settings accordingly. The ending result is quite...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get wifi to work in an old Macbook. I followed the instructions in this thread: BCM4322 - WIFI Card - Freebsd 11.2 not working. In short, I compiled a new kernel with the BWN_GPL_PHY and BWN_DEBUG options enabled, installed firmware from net/bwn-firmware-kmod, and...