MT7915(4)

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💜 mt7915(4) — the Kernel Interfaces Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so you found the page for mt7915, and yes it's section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, we love a documented driver ✨

✨ NAME ✨

mt7915 — the MediaTek IEEE 802.11ax wireless network driver, no cap 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

good news: this driver literally auto-loads by itself, zero user interaction needed, using devmatch(8) if it's enabled in rc.conf(5). main character energy fr 💅

only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled do you gotta place these lines in rc.conf(5) to manually load the driver as a module at boot time:

kld_list="${kld_list} if_mt7915"

the driver should automatically load any firmware needed for the particular chipset — it handles that for you 🫶

lowkey important: it is discouraged to load the driver from loader(8). just don't. 🙈

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

the mt7915 driver provides support for MediaTek MT7915E wireless network devices. and get this — mt7915 is derived from MediaTek's Linux mt76 driver 😭 iconic lineage honestly.

this driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. so the package wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod from the ports/net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod port needs to be installed before the driver is loaded. otherwise? no wlan(4) interface can be created using ifconfig(8). heartbreaking but true 💀

you can use fwget(8) to install the correct firmware package, which is the move honestly 🧚

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. it's giving bilingual, it's giving bridge-and-tunnel 🌈

🦋 HARDWARE 🦋

the mt7915 driver supports PCIe devices with the following chipsets:

  • MediaTek MT7915E

that's the list. one entry. she's exclusive 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the mt7915 driver first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0. a legend was born 💫

💀 BUGS 💀

Certainly.

okay but for real, the actual caveat: while mt7915 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 yet to come 😭 it's coming bestie, it's just not here yet.

so yeah, that's the whole page 🎀 this one came from the Debian build, dated November 10, 2024 — mwah, thanks for reading, go install your firmware package 💜✨

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