firmware

Hey all, I don't want to beat a dead horse but i would like some feedback.. My Chromebook/laptop needs sof-firmware to work and none of the BSD's have it so i have a decision to make. Should i stay on any BSD or go back to Linux where sound works perfect on all distro's.. FreeBSD is my...

If you have a WD Blue SA510 SSD of any capacity you need to update its firmware and backup your data before it gets bricked . It happened to mine today . Since WD has not communicated about this in any meaningful way, send this to anyone who you may think could be affected ...

Seems like NVIDIA is open-sourcing it's drivers. Is there any plan or road-map to bring those drivers to FBSD?

dmesg | grep "Error" output: Firmware Error (ACPI): Failure creating named object [\134_SB.PC00.PEG0.PEGP._DSD], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (201113/dswload2-480) ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20201113/psobject-372) ACPI Error: No handler for Region [EC__] (0xfffff80001bf8d80)...

Hello everyone, I have created a patch to the sysutils/rpi-firmware port to track the new DTS files for the PI Zero 2W and have got it to boot the pi Zero 2W and the 3B, can anyone with another RPI board confirm that the new patch doesn't completely break their install? 261147

A fresh 13.0-RELEASE-p6 installation with graphics/drm-kmod added as a package: # dmesg | grep drm drmn0: <drmn> on vgapci0 [drm] i915.alpha_support is deprecated, use i915.force_probe=9a49 instead vgapci0: child drmn0 requested pci_enable_io vgapci0: child drmn0 requested pci_enable_io [drm]...

I haven't heard about a need for a sound card firmware until I got the new ThinkPad T14 gen.2 This announcement about support by Linux kernel is 2+ years old. This is the project itself: sofproject.org. 1. Is it right that certain sound devices won't work properly without firmware? 2. Are...

Hi, I have added support for the 7260 bluetooth card in iwmbtfw. This means that firmware downloading will now work on this card. Unfortunately I've found bluetooth (called netgraph in FBSD) support quite unreliable so far; I can hear a bit of audio coming out of my speakers but then the...

Please tell me how to install the firmware update from Intel for network card Intel Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T on motherboard Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F...

More of a PSA than actual thread. Read the following links and share your thought. This matter is near dear to my heart. Also if you have specific technical suggestions please, head over the mailing list, and share your opinion by reply/email over there. Quote the TL;DR from the original email...

I fixed an ACPI problem with an old motherboard. Here, I document the steps I used to repair it: Trying FreeBSD 12.0 on an old Pentium 4 machine, with Intel D915GAV motherboard, latest BIOS version. Everything seems to be working OK except that I have an ACPI error report in dmesg on boot...

I bought a Rosewill AC1300 (without proper research), and I have tried all the avenues of approach I can. ndisgen created a kernel module that would break my install using the supplied drivers. I also have tried bwn, bwi, if_bwn_pci, and have yet to find anything to get a workable solution...

Hi folks! I've a MSI GP62 2QE computer, it has an Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 which wasn't detected while installing FreeBSD 11.0 RELEASE. I installed and when I get rid of an awful time with GRUB I realised it did not have internet connection. FreeBSD doesn't detect the device. I have...