Unable to turn on WiFi 6 on my intel ax200

[igoshin]

Hello I'm using

FreeBSD freebsd 14.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE releng/14.2-n269506-c8918d6c7412 GENERIC amd64

and I'm trying to get 5Ghz wifi but no luck

ifconfig wlan0

wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=0
    ether c8:e2:65:c0:39:47
    inet 10.10.11.14 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 10.10.11.255
    groups: wlan
    ssid nqma_net channel 36 (5180 MHz 11a) bssid 9a:2a:6f:10:52:38
    regdomain ETSI country BG authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
    deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 17 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6
    mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 wme roaming MANUAL
    parent interface: iwlwifi0
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11a
    status: associated
    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

pkg info wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod-22000

wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod-22000-20241017_1
Name           : wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod-22000
Version        : 20241017_1
Installed on   : Sat Dec  7 20:40:35 2024 UTC
Origin         : net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod
Architecture   : FreeBSD:14:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : net kld
Licenses       : whence and primary
Maintainer     : bz@FreeBSD.org
WWW            : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/
Comment        : Firmware modules for the iwlwifi (22000) WiFi NIC driver
Annotations    :
    FreeBSD_version: 1401000
    build_timestamp: 2024-11-12T01:04:27+0000
    built_by       : poudriere-git-3.4.2
    flavor         : 22000
    port_checkout_unclean: no
    port_git_hash  : 9d0b51558
    ports_top_checkout_unclean: no
    ports_top_git_hash: eae90cac0
    repo_type      : binary
    repository     : FreeBSD
Flat size      : 7.93MiB
Description    :
Firmware files for Intel WiFi NICs supported by the iwlwifi mvm driver.

 

[shurik]

There is no native support of ac or ax wireless standards on FreeBSD yet. For higher speeds you can try net/wifibox. It's a small linux vm running in bhyve with your wireless adapter attached.

 

[igoshin]

Thank you.

And do you know what are the penalties behind this approach?

 

[Maxnix]

And do you know what are the penalties behind this approach?

As a net/wifibox user myself, I can confirm that is very stable. The only "drawback" is that since using wifibox means having a bhyve VM running, you can't use Virtualbox.

 

[igoshin]

Thanks, I can confirm it works just fine with my Intel Ax200. I just have to figure it out to make persistent DNAT PREROUTING.