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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/rtw88.4')
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/rtw88.4 b/share/man/man4/rtw88.4 index 0ace002e4bde..a1a74db41b42 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/rtw88.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/rtw88.4 @@ -22,10 +22,8 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $FreeBSD$ -.\" -.Dd May 5, 2022 -.Dt rtw88 4 +.Dd October 06, 2023 +.Dt RTW88 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm rtw88 @@ -44,10 +42,6 @@ to manually load the driver as a module at boot time: kld_list="${kld_list} if_rtw88" .Ed .Pp -The driver should automatically load any -.Xr rtw88fw 4 -firmware needed for the particular chipset. -.Pp It is discouraged to load the driver from .Xr loader 8 . .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -63,13 +57,29 @@ the following chipsets: .It Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8822ce (RTL8822CE) .El .Pp +This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. +The package +.Pa wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod +from the +.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-rtw88-kmod +port needs to be installed before the driver is loaded. +Otherwise no +.Xr wlan 4 +interface can be created using +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +One can use +.Xr fwget 8 +to install the correct firmware package. +.Pp The driver uses the .\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here. .Em linuxkpi_wlan and .Em linuxkpi compat framework to bridge between the Linux and -native FreeBSD driver code as well as to the native +native +.Fx +driver code as well as to the native .Xr net80211 4 wireless stack. .Pp @@ -81,7 +91,7 @@ Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. .Sh LOADER TUNABLES .Bl -tag -width indent .It Va compat.linuxkpi.skb.mem_limit -If you are running a 64bit system with more than 4GB of main mmeory +If you are running a 64bit system with more than 4GB of main memory you need to set this tunable to .Sy 1 in @@ -102,10 +112,11 @@ section above. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr rtw88fw 4 , .Xr wlan 4 , +.Xr fwget 8 , .Xr ifconfig 8 , .Xr wpa_supplicant 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in -.Fx 14.0 . +.Fx 13.2 . |