Current Status of Realtek 8822BE

[emilengler]

Hello, how is this WiFi Card supported by FreeBSD? It is pretty common in lots of newer ThinkPads including E595.

Already thank you for your replies

 

[aponomarenko]

I usually check WiFi cards for FreeBSD compatibility in two steps:

1. Find it's ID by https://linux-hardware.org/?view=search&name=8822be#list
2. Grep list of supported FreeBSD IDs for this ID: https://github.com/bsdhw/Drivers/blob/master/freebsd/freebsd-12.1.list

In your case ID=10ec b822 and not presented in the list. So it's not supported by FreeBSD up to 12.1.

 

[GeorgePatches]

So I'm interested in the same device. I checked the list of supported IDs for FreeBSD 13 and it's not supported either. What can I (or anyone else) do to help get it supported in new versions?

 

[grahamperrin]

Try:

WiFi/Iwlwifi - FreeBSD Wiki

Plus some of the discussion at/around <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/539628>

 

[Andriy]

Try:

WiFi/Iwlwifi - FreeBSD Wiki

Plus some of the discussion at/around <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/539628>

Iwlwifi is for Intel cards / chips?

 

[grahamperrin]

Thanks for the correction! My bad. Now struck through.

I was over-generalising from what's pictured in the Technology Roadmap.

 

[grahamperrin]

Is RTL8822BE akin to 8822BE?

From WiFi/Rtw88 - FreeBSD Wiki, which mentions the former:

… consolidated PRs with requests for driver …

FreeBSD bug 248235 – rtw88: RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe support (WIP)