Post B17ysWeKQHjVXq17AW by rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
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(DIR) Post #B15N9XLUu0S63KyQTI by teapot_ben@glammr.us
2025-12-09T22:13:36Z
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Had a play with #FreeBSD in live mode from a USB stick on an older laptop tonight just to see if the hardware was supported.Boy am I out of practice at configuring stuff on the command line! I've become spoilt by GUIs in recent years.Didn't help with the bug in 15.0 where the WiFi firmware file was incorrectly named and couldn't be loaded for the Intel 8260. Got there eventually, but it seemed to be very slow with iwlwifi. More experimentation required!
(DIR) Post #B15VHCEo42dYXP0Vw8 by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-09T23:04:42Z
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@teapot_ben@glammr.us hit the exact 8260 rename bug the other day with my laptop!
(DIR) Post #B15VHDPpgX3EBtAplI by teapot_ben@glammr.us
2025-12-09T23:25:15Z
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@kaixin seems like it's a fairly common network card. Shame it slipped through the RC testing, but then again it's forced me to learn more about interface devices and firmware in FreeBSD!
(DIR) Post #B17ysTbNkmas5pcDey by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-09T23:48:52Z
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@teapot_ben@glammr.us I actually prefer the behavior in 14.x RELEASE where my wireless works out of box albeit lower speed, which allow me to then install firmware with a working network. But with 15 there is no network at all without firmware, but to install the firmware I NEED network to work at the first place.
(DIR) Post #B17ysV5uCmbUimu6sK by teapot_ben@glammr.us
2025-12-09T23:59:20Z
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@kaixin oh interesting, I hadn't realised realised there was such a fundamental change. I'm jumping straight in at 15.I guess it's good in some ways as long as everything works, but there is always the chance of that catch 22 situation you mentioned.
(DIR) Post #B17ysWeKQHjVXq17AW by rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-10T12:25:56Z
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@teapot_ben@glammr.us @kaixin@snac.bsd.cafeDang, is this the 8260 consternation club? 🤣I'm happily rolled back to 14.3.Let me know when it's safe to upgrade, again. 🤣
(DIR) Post #B17ysX3qtO9KozxUx6 by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T01:02:46Z
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It is safe, just have to rename the one single firmware file /boot/firmware/iwm8000C to /boot/firmware/iwm8000Cfw after upgrade and network is back. You will see all other files are named like that and the 8000C stands out among them.
(DIR) Post #B17ysXfmcMUUidhn4i by rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T01:35:56Z
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@kaixin@snac.bsd.cafeIs there a bug tracker for it?
(DIR) Post #B17ysXv1hggTTupxpo by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T04:29:44Z
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Yes there is: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291403. After I replied the 15.0-RELEASE status the fix was committed.
(DIR) Post #B18rX5dPACOF9oNPAe by evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T05:29:36Z
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@rl_dane @teapot_ben @kaixin Oh, thats why I always wait few months before updating to the next #FreeBSD release and for now this healthy habit is really saved me :drgn_stare_nervous:// One more 8260 user here :)
(DIR) Post #B18rX7IYyeuIJkdmxk by lfa@hostux.social
2025-12-11T08:08:55Z
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@evgandr @rl_dane @teapot_ben @kaixin I developed the same habit many years ago with Debian, always waiting for the x.1 release 😆
(DIR) Post #B18rX88JsEJ6uGr7dQ by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T14:42:27Z
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@lfa@hostux.social @evgandr@bsd.cafe My daily driver actually has been running Debian aid for years. With FreeBSD powered by ZFS I wait for nothing either thanks to BE.
(DIR) Post #B18rkokEkwVKpR7NT6 by teapot_ben@glammr.us
2025-12-11T09:51:38Z
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@lfa @evgandr @rl_dane @kaixin my 8260 seems to have a stable connection when using iwlwifi, but it maxes out at about 14Mb/s which is frustrating. Not tried it with iwm yet (still need to fix the firmware file issue).What sort of speeds do you get on 14.3 out of interest?
(DIR) Post #B18rkpgjFTIBkqU5dg by evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T11:44:35Z
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@teapot_ben @lfa @rl_dane @kaixin Maximal speed, which I gained with iwm, or iwlwifi or wifibox are here: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@evgandr/115363280692100848Iwlwifi is the best and iwm is the worst in my speedtests🤷♂️
(DIR) Post #B18rkqjbMHBV02ptku by kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T14:44:41Z
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@evgandr@bsd.cafe @teapot_ben@glammr.us for me network speed on FreeBSD has been barely acceptable. I never seriously tested but pkg download speed rarely goes beyond 500K/s as far as know.
(DIR) Post #B18rkxJGuZHZOPZTBg by evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2025-12-11T11:49:34Z
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@teapot_ben @lfa @rl_dane @kaixin But I found one problem with iwlwifi driver — I can't aggregate wlan0 and the Ethernet interface to the lagg0 interface — I just got an error during the system startup and wlan0 stays out of lagg0.The error was smth like SIOCS_80211, didn't remember