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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/rtw89.4 | 126 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/modules/Makefile | 2 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/Makefile b/share/man/man4/Makefile index e2448660a112..6f7eefe734f7 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man4/Makefile @@ -494,6 +494,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ rtnetlink.4 \ rtsx.4 \ rtw88.4 \ + rtw89.4 \ rtwn.4 \ rtwnfw.4 \ rtwn_pci.4 \ diff --git a/share/man/man4/rtw89.4 b/share/man/man4/rtw89.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2e1f2676eb8e --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/rtw89.4 @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +.\"- +.\" Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Bjoern A. Zeeb +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd October 10, 2024 +.Dt RTW89 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm rtw89 +.Nd Realtek IEEE 802.11ax wireless network driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using +.Xr devmatch 8 +if enabled in +.Xr rc.conf 5 . +.Pp +Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following +lines in +.Xr rc.conf 5 +to manually load the driver as a module at boot time: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +kld_list="${kld_list} if_rtw89" +.Ed +.Pp +It is discouraged to load the driver from +.Xr loader 8 . +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver is derived from Realtek's Linux rtw89 driver. +.Pp +This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. +The package +.Pa wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod +from the +.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-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 should 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 +.Fx +driver code as well as to the native +.Xr net80211 4 +wireless stack. +.Pp +While +.Nm +supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac and ax +the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. +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 memory +you need to set this tunable to +.Sy 1 +in +.Xr loader.conf 5 +and reboot once to make it effective. +This tunable will work around a problem with DMA and limit allocations +for network buffer memory to the lower 32bit of physical memory and +make the driver work. +.El +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports PCIe devices with the following chipsets: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact +.It Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8851be (RTL8851BE) +.It Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8852ae (RTL8852AE) +.It Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8852be (RTL8852BE) +.It Realtek 802.11ax wireless 8852ce (RTL8852CE) +.El +.Sh BUGS +Certainly. +.Pp +Does not seem to work (reliably) on machines with more than 4GB of +main memory. +See in the +.Sx LOADER TUNABLES +section above. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr wlan 4 , +.Xr fwget 8 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 14.2 . diff --git a/sys/modules/Makefile b/sys/modules/Makefile index 84d1735e8e07..d76e16b1da1b 100644 --- a/sys/modules/Makefile +++ b/sys/modules/Makefile @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ SUBDIR= \ ${_rockchip} \ rtsx \ ${_rtw88} \ + ${_rtw89} \ rtwn \ rtwn_pci \ rtwn_usb \ @@ -573,6 +574,7 @@ _iwlwifi= iwlwifi _iwlwififw= iwlwififw .endif _rtw88= rtw88 +_rtw89= rtw89 _vmware= vmware .endif |