FreeBSD on ThinkPad T14 Gen 3

tembun

tembun

I'm planning on buying ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 with Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U. Does anyone have experience running FreeBSD on this machine? I tried to search through the existing forums posts, but couldn't find much. I didn't find this model on FreeBSD laptops page either, so I wonder if there are some caveats/issues with graphics, Wi-Fi, sound, etc?..
 
tembun said:
ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 with Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U. ... caveats/issues with graphics, Wi-Fi, sound, etc?..
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There are several hardware probes to this model, it seems
  • graphics is supported
  • sound is "detected" (not sure it that means "working")
  • wifi isn't fully supported:
Probe #7aa93cd8ba of Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7aa93cd8ba

pciconf : https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7aa93cd8ba&log=pciconf

QCNFA765 Wireless Network Adapter'

"Running a QCNFA765 wireless adapter": https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2025-August/003648.html

Just checked 15.0-RELEASE and 16.0-CURRENT, the ath11k kernel module is not included, it must be build manually, which indicates the driver is not production ready.

The adapter could be used via net/wifibox, though.
 
Thank you very much folks (especially for bsd-hardware.info - dind't know about this site)!

Yes, it indeed seems that T14 Gen 3 is not that reliable when it comes to Wi-Fi (no native driver). In my case, stability and reliability is the primary factor (e.g. I don't want to be walking around with a Wi-Fi dongle and I don't feel like having a running Linux VM just for working Wi-Fi), so now I start looking at T14 Gen 2 - it seems that its network adapter is well supported (at least we have a driver here) and pretty much everything else is supported as well.
 
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