Hi, been lurking here for a bit, slowly putting freeBSD on my laptops. 15.1 dropped right into my Thinkpad x270 without a hitch.
My older Thinkpad X13 (20T3), a first gen X13, wifi gave a bit of trouble. A chicken/egg problem getting the iwlwifi to work on the AX201 or AX210 card that's in the machine. At install it hangs after prompting for wifi password... and can't run fwget without a network. The hang was a bit puzzling. For sanity check, I installed again selecting ethernet/manual (no networking, as no ethernet in this room) using the limited packages on the USB stick. FreeBSD installed completely, albeit without networking. dmesg showed iwlwifi OK, no problems, and wlan0 showed the wifi SSID, so it was partially up.
Rather than actually solve the problem, I cheated and inserted a USB wifi dongle, repeated the install from the USB memory stick, selected network install. Apparently the wifi dongle was selected by the installer, installation completed. This let me use fwget to fetch iwlwifi..22000 firmware. Removed wifi dongle, rebooted, networking came right up on the internal AX2xx card.
Minor contribution I know, just wanted to say thanks. And that the Handbook is pretty damn good.
My older Thinkpad X13 (20T3), a first gen X13, wifi gave a bit of trouble. A chicken/egg problem getting the iwlwifi to work on the AX201 or AX210 card that's in the machine. At install it hangs after prompting for wifi password... and can't run fwget without a network. The hang was a bit puzzling. For sanity check, I installed again selecting ethernet/manual (no networking, as no ethernet in this room) using the limited packages on the USB stick. FreeBSD installed completely, albeit without networking. dmesg showed iwlwifi OK, no problems, and wlan0 showed the wifi SSID, so it was partially up.
Rather than actually solve the problem, I cheated and inserted a USB wifi dongle, repeated the install from the USB memory stick, selected network install. Apparently the wifi dongle was selected by the installer, installation completed. This let me use fwget to fetch iwlwifi..22000 firmware. Removed wifi dongle, rebooted, networking came right up on the internal AX2xx card.
Minor contribution I know, just wanted to say thanks. And that the Handbook is pretty damn good.