Help with dragonfly bsd.
Hello I don’t know where else to ask this so I’m just gonna ask it here. I really love dragonfly bsd but WiFi not working kinda defeats the purpose of a laptop.
Hello, I was wondering what the steps are to use WiFi on dragon fly bsd. I am running on a acer laptop (acer aspire e 15 576 392h) for some reason the only bad that runs on my laptop is dragonfly and I really like it except I can’t use wifi and only using Ethernet is a big downside for a laptop. A GUI WiFi would be even better. Thank you for any help. The type of WiFi is 802.11ac or it says on the Amazon page. I tried the instructions on the site but nothing happened after doing them. I also have a TP link wireless adapter if that could be helpful. Any help would be strongly appreciated as this is the only thing holding me back from bsd. Thank you for any help. |
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so i think the problem is the driver for my wifi card.
i found this which should be the fix IWM(4) DragonFly Kernel Interfaces Manual IWM(4) NAME iwm - Intel IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, include the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device iwm device pci device wlan You also need to select a firmware for your device. Use device iwmfw to include them all. Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in loader.conf(5): if_iwm_load="YES" iwm3160fw_load="YES" iwm3168fw_load="YES" iwm7260fw_load="YES" iwm7265fw_load="YES" iwm7265Dfw_load="YES" iwm8000Cfw_load="YES" iwm8265fw_load="YES" iwm9000fw_load="YES" iwm9260fw_load="YES" DESCRIPTION The iwm driver provides support for: Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3160 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3165 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3168 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7260 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8265 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9260 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9270 Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 946X Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9560 iwm supports station mode operation. Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8). This driver requires the firmware built with the iwmfw module to work. LOADER TUNABLES hw.iwm.msi.enable By default, the driver will use MSI if it is supported. This behavior can be turned off by setting this tunable to 0. hw.iwm.power_scheme Power management scheme: 1 = active, 2 = balanced (default), 3 = low power hw.iwm.lar.disable Allows disabling LAR (Location Aware Regulatory) feature: 0 = LAR enabled if available (default), 1 = LAR disabled EXAMPLES Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 inet 192.168.0.20 \ netmask 0xffffff00 Join a specific BSS network with network name "my_net": ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net up Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net \ wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \ wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 DIAGNOSTICS iwm%d: device timeout The driver will reset the hardware. This should not happen. iwm%d: firmware error The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. The driver will reset the hardware. This should not happen. iwm%d: fw chunk addr 0x%x len %d failed to load Timed out waiting for a segment of the firmware to load. This should not happen. iwm%d: could not read firmware %s (error %d) The driver failed to load the firmware image using the firmware(9) subsystem. Verify the iwmfw(4) firmware module is present. iwm%d: Failed to start INIT ucode: %d An attempt to upload the INIT firmware image to the onboard microcontroller failed. This should not happen. iwm%d: could not load firmware An attempt to upload the REGULAR firmware image to the onboard microcontroller failed. This should not happen. SEE ALSO iwmfw(4), pci(4), wlan(4), wlan_ccmp(4), wlan_tkip(4), wlan_wep(4), ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant(8) HISTORY The iwm device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.7. DragonFly 5.9-DEVELOPMENT March 20, 2020 DragonFly 5.9-DEVELOPMENT i tried to follow this but it is confusing. could anyone give better instructions on how to load and use the 802.11ac adapter? thank you. |
here is my usb wifi adapter
TL-WN823N is my usb wifi adapter. can i get this to work?
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You are very impatient, and that's what you get for your impatience: someone who doesn't actually use BSD answering. General advice that - I hope - is operating system agnostic:
Also keep in mind that a working wifi device does not guarantee a working internet and WWW connection. |
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This has the added advantage that an unanswered question stays in zero reply status, where it will float to the top automatically for a few days. So answering your own unanswered question actually has the opposite effect of a "bump". PS: why is this marked [SOLVED]??? |
iwm(4) is the wrong driver (Intel). A quick search suggests that the device is based on the Realtek RTL8192CU chipset.
The driver you want is urtwn(4): https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=urtwn§ion=4 RTL8192CU is listed. Read the synopsis and you will see the two lines you will need in loader.conf(5) For the firmware: https://man.dragonflybsd.org/?command=urtwnfw§ion=4 Again under the synopsis, you will also need to add those lines to loader.conf. At that point you should be able to kldload(8) the modules - or just reboot - edit: or better still unplug and plug in as it's a USB device.... |
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No that would be the kernel configuration. As you're not rebuilding the kernel to compile in the driver, but loading modules, you can disregard.
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