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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 .