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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).
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.
| 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. | |
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.
| RTW88 (4) | November 10, 2024 |
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