Solved FreeBSD 12.0, wrong wifi-driver name

[s5e]

Fresh install and I got weird error when trying to connect wifi

dmesg | grep iwm

iwm7265Dfw root not mounted yet, no way to load image
iwm0: could not read firmware iwm7265D (error 0)
iwm0: Failed to start INT ucode:35

Why there's that D letter? It should be iwm7265fw.

Same settings worked with 11.1 fine.

% cat /boot/loader.conf

# Intel WiFi 7265
if_iwm_load="YES"
iwm7265fw_load="YES"
legal.intel.ipw.license_ack=1
legal.intel.iwm.license_ack=1
legal.intel.iwi.license_ack=1

# Wifi Security Protocols
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"

% cat /etc/rc.conf

wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"

 

[s5e]

I found solution here: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-wireless/2017-March/007570.html
It seems that driver name has changed and I need to use iwm7265Dfw_load="YES" instead.

 

[scottro]

Thanks for posting the solution. Although CURRENT isn't supported here, presently, it is sometimes the only way to get newer laptops working with decent video, so I'm sure this will be useful to others.

 

[dsifriend]

This issue seems to have popped up again in the latest CURRENT, but with different results.

iwm7265Dfw.ko does still work, but if_iwm no longer loads it automatically.

 

[SirDice]

Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions

Although CURRENT isn't supported here, presently, it is sometimes the only way to get newer laptops working with decent video, so I'm sure this will be useful to others.

The required kernel changes have been MFC'ed to 11-STABLE some time ago and are included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE.