Hello! I just bought a used Lenovo ThinkPad T470 laptop based on chatGPTs suggestion to have a laptop fully supported by FreeBSD 15.
I have managed to everything working, but the AC 8265 wireless gets only about 2,3 MB/s speed. It is connected
to 5G wireless and my other laptop with Fedora 43 gets 8 MB/s. The following is probably the reason for FreeBSDs slower speed:
# dmesg | grep iwm
reveals that the firmware could not be loaded:
iwm0: <Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265> mem 0xec000000-0xec001fff at device 0.0 on pci2
iwm8265fw: could not load firmware image, error 8
iwm0: hw rev 0x230, fw ver 22.361476.0, address 00:28:f8:b0:c3:f4
The "error 8" is not exactly helpful. Is there any way to get AC 8265 work faster? Thanks!
Best regards,
Kalevi K.
I have managed to everything working, but the AC 8265 wireless gets only about 2,3 MB/s speed. It is connected
to 5G wireless and my other laptop with Fedora 43 gets 8 MB/s. The following is probably the reason for FreeBSDs slower speed:
# dmesg | grep iwm
reveals that the firmware could not be loaded:
iwm0: <Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265> mem 0xec000000-0xec001fff at device 0.0 on pci2
iwm8265fw: could not load firmware image, error 8
iwm0: hw rev 0x230, fw ver 22.361476.0, address 00:28:f8:b0:c3:f4
The "error 8" is not exactly helpful. Is there any way to get AC 8265 work faster? Thanks!
Best regards,
Kalevi K.