Intel ax210 anytime soonish?

[chemlud]

Hello!

First of all: No, it's not me. I learned my lessons on BSD and wifi ;-). So, I'm asking for a ...friend (kind of). Really! :-D

He wants to run an Intel AX210 on his protectli with 26.1.latest. I warned, anyways...

I found this here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1jwbms6/intel_wifi_driver_iwx4_now_in_current/?solution=981b64c5cce237f9981b64c5cce237f9&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861cc4aafcbe4ac2126a9ecee431d7f929f&jsc_orig_r=

Although 1 year old, he get's something along the line of

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iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77.ucode: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77.ucode either
iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77.ucode: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77.ucode either
iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77_ucode: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77_ucode either
iwlwifi_ty_a0_gf_a0_77_ucode: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi_ty_a0_gf_a0_77_ucode either
iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77.ucode'
iwlwifi0: File size way too small!
iwlwifi0: no suitable firmware found!
iwlwifi0: minimum version required: iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77
iwlwifi0: maximum version supported: iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-89
iwlwifi0: check git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
iwlwifi0: On FreeBSD the firmware package can be installed running fwget(8).
Is there any hope anytime soon (26.6 maybe?) this will work in AP mode on his OPNsense?

[Seimus]

Well this should work?

As per the support matrix is listed

https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi#Support-Matrix
https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi/Chipsets

22000/AX210 0x8086/0x2725/0x8086/0x0024 63.c04f3485.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-63.ucode, Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz, REV=0x420. Wifi 6E (20211022)

Q: Does this driver support the AX210 from the Framework Laptop?

    A: Yes it does.

Regards,
S.

[Seimus]

Question is since what FBSD release is the driver compiled.

Regards,
S.

[chemlud]

The reddit above is more than 1 year old, I saw this here

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285905

1 year old.

The

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iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-77.ucode'
iwlwifi0: File size way too small!
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sounds mega fishy.

AX210 should work in 14.3

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/slower-than-expected-performance-from-intel-wifi-drivers.98118/