Hi,
This is my first post in this forum. I'm not familiar with the tags and formatting so please bear with me (and my poor English) a little
I'm a new user to FreeBSD and I'm trying it on my laptop.
I have some problems with the AX201 card. The iwlwifi(4) works (kind of), but only works in 11g mode, and the speed is under 100KB/s. I read these two threads:
Thread intel-corporation-alder-lake-p-pch-cnvi-wifi.92911
Thread iwlwifi-ax203-wifi-speed-96-slower-in-freebsd-vs-windows-11.96657
and this article, learned some basics about net/wifibox, and here's my configuration:
Related configs in /usr/local/etc/wifibox/bhyve.conf:
Related configs in /usr/local/etc/wifibox/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
Related configs in /etc/rc.conf:
After a reboot, the
and
but the network still seems not working.
I logged into the wifibox vm and the
and no wlan0 was found as mentioned in this article.
I'm not very familiar with these messages. I'm guessing that the problem is probably the wifibox not functioning properly with my AX201 card? The whole
Am I doing something wrong with wifibox or missing some configurations?
This is my first post in this forum. I'm not familiar with the tags and formatting so please bear with me (and my poor English) a little
I'm a new user to FreeBSD and I'm trying it on my laptop.
uname -a gives me:
Code:
FreeBSD tx5pro 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64I have some problems with the AX201 card. The iwlwifi(4) works (kind of), but only works in 11g mode, and the speed is under 100KB/s. I read these two threads:
Thread intel-corporation-alder-lake-p-pch-cnvi-wifi.92911
Thread iwlwifi-ax203-wifi-speed-96-slower-in-freebsd-vs-windows-11.96657
and this article, learned some basics about net/wifibox, and here's my configuration:
Related configs in /usr/local/etc/wifibox/bhyve.conf:
Code:
cpus=1
memory=128M
console=yes
passthru="0/20/3"
priority=50
stop_wait_max=30Related configs in /usr/local/etc/wifibox/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
Code:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="xxxxxxxx"
psk="xxxxxxxx"
priority=6
}Related configs in /etc/rc.conf:
Code:
devmatch_enable="YES"
devmatch_blocklist="if_iwm if_iwlwifi"
wifibox_enable="YES"
ifconfig_wifibox0="SYNCDHCP"
background_dhclient_wifibox0="YES"
defaultroute_delay="0"After a reboot, the
pciconf -lv command gives me this:
Code:
ppt0@pci0:0:20:3: class=0x028000 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x7a70 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0074
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = 'Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi'
class = networkand
ifconfig tells me the wifibox0 is at 10.0.0.2:
Code:
wifibox0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=0
ether 58:9c:fc:10:b5:79
inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
member: tap0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 4 priority 128 path cost 2000000
groups: bridge
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
tap0: flags=1008943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=80000<LINKSTATE>
ether 58:9c:fc:10:ff:a3
groups: tap
media: Ethernet 1000baseT <full-duplex>
status: active
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
Opened by PID 353but the network still seems not working.
I logged into the wifibox vm and the
ifconfig command only gives me this:
Code:
wifibox:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:98:8A:05:71
inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:98ff:fe8a:571/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: fd00::ffff/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6468 (6.3 KiB) TX bytes:5846 (5.7 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)and no wlan0 was found as mentioned in this article.
lspci -k in the wifibox vm shows the iwlwifi device:
Code:
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:7000
00:04.2 Class 0100: 1af4:1009 virtio-pci
00:04.0 Class 0100: 1af4:1001 virtio-pci
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1275:1275
00:04.3 Class 0100: 1af4:1009 virtio-pci
00:06.0 Class 0280: 8086:7a70 iwlwifi
00:04.1 Class 0100: 1af4:1009 virtio-pci
00:05.0 Class 0200: 8086:100f e1000 dmesg in the wifibox shows some error in the end.
Code:
[ 43.072164] iwlwifi 0000:00:06.0: failed to send MCC_ALLOWED_AP_TYPE_CMD (-5)
[ 43.072169] iwlwifi 0000:00:06.0: LED command failed: -5
[ 43.072172] iwlwifi 0000:00:06.0: Failed to send MAC_CONFIG_CMD (action:1): -5 dmesg output are provided in the attached file.Am I doing something wrong with wifibox or missing some configurations?
Maybe I just have too much time to do these tinkering things lol