wifi

Configure the wireless device as a secondary which is only used when the Ethernet connection is not available. With lagg(4), it is possible to configure a failover which prefers the Ethernet connection, while maintaining the ability to transfer data over the wireless connection. This is...

I have got wifi working on my Dell XPS 15 2019 with the following chipset Killer(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX1650x 160MHz Wireless Network Adapter (200NGW), REV=0x340 which is supported by Iwlwifi https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi and for extra brownie points i have got it working with the lagg0...

Hi all, I'm having an issue with connecting my FreeBSD laptop (with an Intel 7260 chipset) to my school's wifi. I have no issues using it with my home (wpa2) wifi, and I have had no issues on with the school wifi on linux. I'm connecting with wpa_supplicant and wpa_gui. The laptop in particular...

Hello everyone, I've just installed on my T430 a few days ago, and I'm facing some wifi issues. Occasionally, when I boot up, I get no network. I am unable to turn on wifi 1 on Networkmgr, and WPA_Supplicant and WPA_CLI did not work and I'll have to reboot to try again. I'll post any logs you...

I work from my laptop and I get Internet from my phone, but yesterday it stopped working, although I didn't do anything with it. Now I have dns names resolved, but the packets are not coming

I installed FreeBSD 14.1 on my ThinkPad X1 Nano gen 1. Intel AX201 with iwlwifi driver. I'm having intermittent internet issues. Here is what happens when I connect to a wired connection and ping (My ThinkPad doesn't have an ethernet connection and I'm using a RJ45 to USB-C connection, so I...

Hi. I have some usb wifi dongles but they don't work well with FreeBSD, so I thought I might try this wifi adapter for wifi on freebsd. Did anyone try something like that? Do you think it will work? I had a broadcom wifi chip that i want to use with wifibox but i just learnt that broadcom series...

I wonder why $ doas ifconfig wlan0 destroy $ doas ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwm0 wlanmode adhoc ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2 (wlan0): Operation not supported gives me operation not supported. Isn't adhoc supposed to be supported? What I want, is to directly connect my Thinkpad x250 and another...

The FreeBSD Foundation is making significant strides in wireless development, led by Cheng Cui and Bjoern Zeeb. Their primary goals are to fix bugs, stabilize the system, and improve iwlwifi for 802.11ac transfer speeds. Zeeb’s recent contributions have brought stability fixes to native and...

Hi everyone. A common question from FreeBSD users across desktop, server, and vendors is "which chips, NIC, SSD, WiFi, etc. hardware makers consistently offer good FreeBSD support?" This is a priority for me and a first step is to catalog the hardware makers that DO offer good support so the...

First time install of FreeBSD and i'm getting this error when trying to connect to the internet. Any fixes? IMPORTANT NOTE! I am pretty inexperienced with these kinds of operating systems. And generally alot of tech.

I am currently running FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE on a ThinkPad T400. I will often be using my device, when the WiFi will suddenly shut off. i3status reports that it's "down" and wifimgr is blank. I've tried restarting all and any network-related daemons, to no avail, and wifimgr doesn't seem to be...

Hi all, FreeBSD on ARM states that the WiFi chip on the Zero 2W is unsupported ("Unsupported (BCM43438 Driver)"). Just wondering if: a) this is still the case, and if so b) if support is likely to be developed. I am happy to test if needed. In the absence of WiFi connectivity, does anyone...

Hi there. I am struggling with a rather annoying problem. I decided to "dig up" an old minipc, a Dell OptiPlex 3040 micro and install FreeBSD on it. uname -a FreeBSD crap 14.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Dec 11 04:56:01 UTC 2023...

The tl;dr version: For a specific WiFi AP, I can connect directly from the command line but not via wpa_supplicant.conf. That's the puzzle, why won't wpa_supplicant.conf work? The full version: This particular AP does not require a passphrase. Here's the two commands to connect to the WiFi...

So I have installed net-mgmt/networkmgr There's a lack of documentation, though that could just be me. It seems to be a collection of python scripts and a sudo configuration file which get installed in /usr/local/etc/sudoers.d I found the odd historic thread mentioning doas, but it now...

My desktop computer has an "Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth M.2 combo card", which I have no use for (I have a wired connection). I would like to completely disable the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card. How do I configure that in FreeBSD 13.2? Would I be able to reduce energy consumption...

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 13.2. My laptop has an Intel 8260 Wireless-AC adapter. The live install media uses the "iwm" driver by default which does not work with this network adapter (no networks found). The "iwlwifi" driver works fine without issue when I set it up post install. How do I...

I have a wifi card Wi-Fi 6 AX200, but my speed rates are very slow, in average 4.13 Mbits/sec to the router, any idea how to make it work faster? I just upgraded to FreeBSD 14.0-BETA1 but the problem persists iwlwifi0@pci0:8:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x1a hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086...

I don't have a lot of experience with WiFi, but I want to put a switch into an area without a wired network connection. The easiest solution would seem to be a WiFi up-link. There is a Netgear WNDR4300 N750 next door. Are WiFi up-links a proprietary thing -- meaning that I have to buy two...