[iwlwifi] No WiFi Interface shown up
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:28 am
New to BSD. After a fresh install of GhostBSD 22.11.02 on my HP laptop with Intel WiFi chip for trials, there is no Wi-Fi interface shown up for connections. Any help would be highly appreciated!
Hardware
Configurations
Tried things mentioned at https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2417 but still no wlan0 appearing.
Symptoms
System boot log:
ifconfig -a only shows lo0 interface, not seeing wlan0
sudo sysctl net.wlan.devices shows nothing as:
(not seeing any device listed after the colon)
sudo /etc/rc.d/netif start wlan0 shows
sudo kldload if_iwlwifi shows
sudo kldstat shows
Hardware
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> pciconf -l | grep iwm
iwm0@pci0:0:20:3: class=0x028000 rev=0x30 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x9df0 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0034
Configurations
Tried things mentioned at https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2417 but still no wlan0 appearing.
Symptoms
System boot log:
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Loading kernel modules:
Autoloading module: acpi_wmi
Autoloading module: if_iwlwifi
Autoloading module: if_iwm
Autoloading module: ig4
Autoloading module: pchtherm
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2 (wlan0): Device not configured
Starting Network: lo0.
lo0: flags=8049<UP, LOOPBACK, RUNNING, MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
......
ifconfig -a only shows lo0 interface, not seeing wlan0
sudo sysctl net.wlan.devices shows nothing as:
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net.wlan.devices:
sudo /etc/rc.d/netif start wlan0 shows
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ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2 (wlan0): Device not configured
Starting wpa_supplicant.
/etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant
Starting Network: wlan0.
ifconfig: interface wlan0 does not exist
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kldload: can't load if_iwlwifi: module already loaded or in kernel
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18 1 0xffffffff85748000 880c8 if_iwlwifi.ko
19 1 0xffffffff857d1000 17310 if_iwm.ko
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