Use the final version of firmware provided for these cards. This has
been tested with both variants of impacted iwn(4) cards (6005_2X2_1 and
6005_2X2_2, as found in a Dell E6230 and a Lenovo T420), improvements
noted.
of /libdata/firmware and /usr/libdata/firmware are not installed
if set to "no". from the bsd.README:
MKFIRMWARE If "no", install the /libdata/firmware directory,
which is necessary for several drivers: athn(4), bwfm(4),
ipw(4), iwi(4), iwm(4), iwn(4), otus(4), rtwn(4), urtwn(4),
wpi(4), ral(4), rum(4), run(4), zyd(4), bcm43xx(4), and
the Tegra 124 SoC.
Default: yes on amd64, cobalt, evbarm evbmips, evbppc, hpcarm,
hppa, i386, mac68k, macppc, sandpoint, and sparc64, no elsewhere.
convert MKRADEONFIRMWARE and MKTEGRAFIRMWARE into FOO.arch lists,
and move their defaults above the general defaults setting.
saves about 12MB in a normal installation for other platforms.
7265 works fine.
7260 and 3160 maybe work.
7265D, 3165 and 8260 not work yet.
if_iwm.c: r1.147.
if_iwmreg.h: r1.19 without r1.16.
if_iwmvar.h: r1.24.
firmware is taken from https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi
- iwlwifi-7260-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz
- iwlwifi-3160-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz
- iwlwifi-7265-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz
- iwlwifi-8000-ucode-16.242414.0.tgz
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