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RTW88(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual RTW88(4) NAME rtw88 -- Realtek IEEE 802.11n/ac wireless network driver SYNOPSIS The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using devmatch(8) if enabled in rc.conf(5). Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following lines in rc.conf(5) to manually load the driver as a module at boot time: kld_list="${kld_list} if_rtw88" The driver should automatically load any rtw88fw(4) firmware needed for the particular chipset. It is discouraged to load the driver from loader(8). DESCRIPTION The rtw88 driver is derived from Realtek's Linux rtw88 driver. The driver uses the linuxkpi_wlan and linuxkpi compat framework to bridge between the Linux and native FreeBSD driver code as well as to the native net80211(4) wireless stack. HARDWARE The rtw88 driver supports PCIe devices with the following chipsets: • Realtek 802.11n wireless 8723de (RTL8723DE) • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8821ce (RTL8821CE) • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8822be (RTL8822BE) • Realtek 802.11ac wireless 8822ce (RTL8822CE) LOADER TUNABLES 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 1 in 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. SEE ALSO rtw88fw(4), wlan(4), networking(7), fwget(8), ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant(8) HISTORY The rtw88 driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.2. BUGS Certainly. Does not seem to work (reliably) on machines with more than 4GB of main memory. See in the "LOADER TUNABLES" section above. While rtw88 supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac modes, the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11a/b/g modes. Support for 802.11n/ac is yet to come. FreeBSD 14.3 November 10, 2024 RTW88(4)
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