Hello everyone,
I am having trouble configuring the Wi-Fi on my ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 running FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE.
The hardware is an Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE201 320MHz. While the hardware notes suggest support via the iwlwifi driver, I am hitting a consistent kernel panic.
1. Configuration:
I am using the following commands to create the interface:
2. The Issue:
As soon as I run ifconfig wlan0 up, the system prints the following message 8 times before triggering a system-wide kernel panic:
3. Relevant dmesg output:
Observations:
- The driver fails to load firmware version 102 (error: "File size way too small") and falls back to version 101.
- The "XXX TODO" in linuxkpi suggests that the MLD (Multi-Link Device) or specific Wi-Fi 7 iteration flags are not yet fully implemented in the current FreeBSD shim, leading to the crash.
Has anyone successfully stabilized the BE201 on FreeBSD 15, or is this a known limitation for Wi-Fi 7 chipsets at the moment?
Thank you for your help!
I am having trouble configuring the Wi-Fi on my ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 running FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE.
The hardware is an Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE201 320MHz. While the hardware notes suggest support via the iwlwifi driver, I am hitting a consistent kernel panic.
1. Configuration:
I am using the following commands to create the interface:
Code:
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwlwifi0
wpa_passphrase "MY_SSID" "MY_PASSWORD" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ifconfig wlan0 up2. The Issue:
As soon as I run ifconfig wlan0 up, the system prints the following message 8 times before triggering a system-wide kernel panic:
Code:
iwlwifi0: XXX TODO linuxkpi_ieee80211_iterate_interfaces flags(0x109) not yet supported3. Relevant dmesg output:
Code:
iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0x204fd5c000-0x204fd5ffff at device 20.3 on pci0
iwlwifi0: Detected crf-id 0xbadcafe, cnv-id 0x1080900 wfpm id 0x80005b20
iwlwifi0: PCI dev a840/00e4, rev=0x461, rfid=0x20112200
iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE201 320MHz
iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-102.ucode: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-102.ucode either
iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-102.ucode'
iwlwifi0: File size way too small!
iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-bz-b0-fm-c0-101.ucode'
iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 101.6ef20b19.0 bz-b0-fm-c0-101.ucode op_mode iwlmld
iwlwifi0: Detected RF FM, rfid=0x20112200
iwlwifi0: base HW address: 38:18:68:56:ad:6f
iwlwifi0: Failed to register PHC clock (0)Observations:
- The driver fails to load firmware version 102 (error: "File size way too small") and falls back to version 101.
- The "XXX TODO" in linuxkpi suggests that the MLD (Multi-Link Device) or specific Wi-Fi 7 iteration flags are not yet fully implemented in the current FreeBSD shim, leading to the crash.
Has anyone successfully stabilized the BE201 on FreeBSD 15, or is this a known limitation for Wi-Fi 7 chipsets at the moment?
Thank you for your help!