diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/wireless-iwx.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/wireless-iwx.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/wireless-iwx.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +=== Wireless Update + +Contact: Tom Jones + +Contact: The FreeBSD wireless mailing list + +At the end of 2024 Future Crew LLC provided the source for their iwx port from OpenBSD. +I opted to merge the two drivers together using the Future Crew driver as a base and importing my modifications. + +I worked on this driver, tidying up and removing a lot of development code and expanding support for more devices. +iwx in FreeBSD should now attach to any device supported by OpenBSD. +Firmware is available thanks to mailto:bz@FreeBSD.org[bz@] in the package:net/wifi-firmware-iwlwifi-kmod[] package. + +iwx landed in FreeBSD on the final day of the quarter. +iwx probes with a lower priority than iwlwifi to avoid breaking deployed configurations. + +iwx supports legacy, HT and VHT rates and some users have reported significant througputs in test. +There remain many issues around rate selection and development is continuing. + + +Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation