Bug 205542 - FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT r292413 on Dell Inspiron 13 7352 (with Intel AC 7265) not creating iwm0
Summary: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT r292413 on Dell Inspiron 13 7352 (with Intel AC 7265) no...
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: wireless (show other bugs)
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-wireless (Nobody)
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Reported: 2015-12-23 15:45 UTC by Neel Chauhan
Modified: 2015-12-24 13:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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dmesg log (not dmesg.boot) for Dell Inspiron 13 7352 (21.03 KB, text/plain)
2015-12-23 15:45 UTC, Neel Chauhan 		no flags Details
ifconfig output after loading ifconfig (639 bytes, text/plain)
2015-12-23 15:45 UTC, Neel Chauhan 		no flags Details
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Description Neel Chauhan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-12-23 15:45:00 UTC 
Created attachment 164553 [details]
dmesg log (not dmesg.boot) for Dell Inspiron 13 7352

Hi,

My laptop, a Dell Inspiron 13 7352 has the Intel AC 7265 wireless card. If I try to run 'kldload iwm', I get this in the dmesg:

iwm0: <Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265> mem 0xc1000000-0xc1001fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci1
iwm0: revision: 0x210, firmware 25.228 (API ver. 9)

But if I check ifconfig, iwm0 does not appear.

root@:/ # ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        groups: lo 
ue0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:e0:4c:b8:1f:54
        inet 192.168.1.61 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
root@:/ 

Is there a solution to this issue?

Thanks,
Neel Chauhan
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Comment 1 Neel Chauhan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-12-23 15:45:44 UTC 
Created attachment 164554 [details]
ifconfig output after loading ifconfig
Comment 2 Ben Woods freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-12-23 20:53:26 UTC 
Hi Neel,

A few months ago a change was commuted to FreeBSD 11 current that meant the "parent" wifi devices would not show in ifconfig output.

To see the list of wireless devices available on your FreeBSD 11 machine, type:
$ sysctl net.wlan.devices

Once you know what devices are available, you must create a wlan clone device, exactly the same as you have previously (follow instructions in the handbook and man pages as per normal).

If you confirm this is your only problem, and everything else is working ok, please respond and also close this bug report.

Good luck!
-Ben
Comment 3 Neel Chauhan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-12-23 23:10:39 UTC 
(In reply to Ben Woods from comment #2)
Thank You! I got the WiFI working now.

The only thing I need is Broadwell kernel mode setting now, but I could live without accelerated graphics support (at least I have a good CPU).
Comment 4 Ben Woods freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-12-24 08:08:50 UTC 
That's good news - glad to hear it is all working for you.

Can you please close this bug report by changing the status to CLOSED and selection an appropriate reason?