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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man4/mt7921.4 b/static/freebsd/man4/mt7921.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe9efa77 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man4/mt7921.4 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.\"- +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause +.\" +.\" 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. +.\" +.Dd November 10, 2024 +.Dt MT7921 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mt7921 +.Nd MediaTek 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_mt7921" +.Ed +.Pp +The driver should automatically load any +firmware needed for the particular chipset. +.Pp +It is discouraged to load the driver from +.Xr loader 8 . +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for MediaTek MT7921E wireless network devices. +.Nm +is derived from MediaTek's Linux mt76 driver. +.Pp +This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. +The package +.Pa wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod +from the +.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-mt76-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 can use +.Xr fwget 8 +to install the correct firmware package. +.Pp +The driver uses the +.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here. +.Sy linuxkpi_wlan +and +.Sy linuxkpi +compat framework to bridge between the Linux and +native +.Fx +driver code as well as to the native +.Xr net80211 4 +wireless stack. +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports PCIe devices with the following chipsets: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact +.It +MediaTek MT7921E +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr wlan 4 , +.Xr networking 7 , +.Xr fwget 8 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 , +.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 14.0 . +.Sh BUGS +Certainly. +.Pp +While +.Nm +supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax modes, +the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11a/b/g modes. +Support for 802.11n/ac/ax is to come. |
