Solved rtw88 wifibox

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nandi

I just realized yesterday that my rtw88 wifi works on my laptop on Freebsd 14.1 dont need to use the rtwn0 usb wifi anymore.
The current network speed is 10% of what the hardware can do.
Question is would setting up the rtw88 in Wifi box make my wifi perform faster?
Is there any tutorial about Wifi box?
I never even tried bhyve does my ufs supports it? Or i should had installed on zfs?

Sorry for the dumb questions i am just a desktop user.
 
nandi said:
Question is would setting up the rtw88 in Wifi box make my wifi perform faster?
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If rtw88(4) has speed limitations for your chipset and Linux is supporting that WiFi chipset, then you will get Linux's driver's speed.

nandi said:
Is there any tutorial about Wifi box?
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You can read wifibox(8), it's pretty detailed.


nandi said:
I never even tried bhyve does my ufs supports it? Or i should had installed on zfs?
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I think filesystem doesn't matter here. Your PC needs to support virtualization and you need to turn on virtualization setting in the BIOS.
 
Could someone confirm please what is the correct form of the passthru value in /usr/local/etc/wifibox/bhyve.conf
I did put passthru=1/0/0
For the following device

rtw880@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec device=0xc822 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x85f7
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter'
class = network

Is it correct?
 
nandi said:
Could someone confirm please what is the correct form of the passthru value in /usr/local/etc/wifibox/bhyve.conf
I did put passthru=1/0/0
For the following device

rtw880@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec device=0xc822 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x85f7
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter'
class = network

Is it correct?
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Yes, it is correct.

Code: 
# The value of `passthru` has to match with the slot/bus/function of
# the wireless PCI device, which can be obtained from the output of
# the pciconf(8) tool.  THIS MUST BE SET otherwise the device will not
# be visible for the guest.  Expected format: "s/b/f", e.g."3/0/0" for
# the `pci0:3:0:0` device.
#
# Note that it is possible to include other PCI devices, for example
# the USB xHCI controller in case interaction with the Bluetooth
# device is needed.  Separate the slot/bus/function value with space,
# e.g. "3/0/0 0/20/0", where `pci0:0:20:0` is the xHCI controller.
passthru=

github.com

freebsd-wifibox/etc/bhyve.conf.sample at main · pgj/freebsd-wifibox

wifibox: Use Linux to drive your wireless card on FreeBSD - pgj/freebsd-wifibox
github.com github.com
 
Thank you so much its working
Strange thing the networkmgr app thinks i am offline
but i have a very good network speed and 10.0.0.2 ip address.
 
nandi said:
Thank you so much its working
Strange thing the networkmgr app thinks i am offline
but i have a very good network speed and 10.0.0.2 ip address.
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I am glad that it's solved. I don't know anything about networkmgr but maybe you may need to configure it. I am using WiFi on my Desktop PC too and mine is from Atheros brand and it is one of the well supported chipsets. I don't know much about how wifibox works but it's good that it worked for you.
 
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