Added wifi card mediatek mt7921 but no deviced shown up in wireless section

[abij]

Hello,

I added a mediatek mt7921 wifi m.2 adapter to my j3455itx board but there is no available devices in the web gui

interfaces -> wireless -> devices -> (click add) ->  Parent interface (nothing selected) drop down menu contains nothing,

Pci dump shows in the relevant section the device is 'none2'

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# pciconf -vl
none2@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x14c3 device=0x7961 subvendor=0x17aa subdevice=0xe0bc
    vendor     = 'MEDIATEK Corp.'
    device     = 'MT7921 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = network

The driver I used is from freebsd repo after editing /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

https://www.freshports.org/net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod/

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pkg install wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod

Any ideas how to make the wifi adapter available in opnsense?

Is it possible for the opnsense team to add the wifi firmware to opnsense package repo?

Thanks in advance.

[chemlud]

Wifi and sense -> generally not straight forward to make it work...

I have one wifi stick i use for WAN on my travelbox, totally good luck I made that work some years ago. For home setup use a wifi access point, is the general recommendation.

[alex303]

Anything wifi in freebsd based oses is a bad idea. Even when it works.