it was totally because i fat fingered the binary paty

it was totally because i fat fingered the binary path

hi deimosBSD

glad you figured it out :D

it turns out /usr/localbin/binary doesn't work ;)

FreeBSD 15 hardware supported wifi drivers list says that my wlan card is supported by the kernel but when I installed FreeBSD the wifi didn’t work

Realtek 8852BE Wi-Fi 6 (RTL8852BE) Is my wifi card

spaciouskarter78: I dont remember any 802.11ax cards being supported

even if they were supported, 802.11ax isnt within the ieee80211 stack

so it would only be able to use 802.11ac

the latest driver support was iwlwifi but thats intel, and rtwn is only for 802.11n/ac realtek cards

polarian freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/hardware/#wlan

riceandbeans: wow, as common as sshd is I would think it crashing often for many folks would be something fixed quickly

wow err

they really did LinuxKPI a lot

spaciouskarter78: is there anything under dmesg

did you kldload if_rtw89

it should automatically load

but make sure

and check for any errors within dmesg

polarian should I run the command named “dmesg”?

oh wait I saw it

nvm

its because of missing firmware

As well as kldload?

Oh

How do I fix it?

pkg install net/wifi-firmware-rtw89-kmod

and then reboot

Thanks a lot I’ll try that now and see if it works

running fwget should also fetch it

or so the man page says

but installing the port would definitely work

polarian and for connecting to the wifi on kde what should I use? Networkmgr or wifimgr?

those are Linuxisms

wifi on freebsd is done via wpa_supplicant usually

the freebsd handbook goes over it

personally what I do is "ifconfig wlan0 scan" when you are looking for ssids

then "wpa_passphrase <ssid>", then enter the passphrase, and then write it to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

then you can "pkill -HUP wpa_supplicant" (as root, use doas/sudo otherwise) and it will reload the config

I think there was a wifi gui being developed for GSOC but I dont know much about it

thats how I do wifi, it works well, but I know it isn't very user friendly

for the most part I avoid wifi though, and just use ethernet

Ssid is the name of the wifi?

Sorry I never interacted with networks at such a low level before

spaciouskarter78: sorry yes ssid is the "wifi name"

someone else might be able to provide a more elegant solution, or KDE settings might be able to handle it for you

I dont use KDE though, I just i3 with xorg, and my setup is very minimalist

so I urge you to try connecting through KDE first, see if its GUI can do it all for you, otherwise what I explained above works but is not user friendly

polarian the wifi card somehow got detected automatically

spaciouskarter78: well considering this is new to 15.0 I dont expect it to be the most stable

I stick to 802.11n cards for that reason

they just work (mostly)

plus I run an old laptop

I ran ifconfig wlan0 scan but it doesn’t return anything

I tried installing the port you mentioned let’s see what happens

Restarting rn

Nope no luck

polarian found the problem

The entire system crashes when I attempt to scan for wifi

I tried ifconfig wlan0 up scan and my pc crashed

spaciouskarter78: by "crash" do you mean a panic?

if you get get the logs I can relay it to the wifi nerds

it freezes up when i run the command and just restarts after making loud beep noises

what logs can i provide?

i just opened a bug report on bugzilla about this: bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294429