WiFi configuration on FreeNAS

Lucas Rey

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Hello community, I have the following MoBo for my freenas installation:
https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/H370M-ITXac/index.asp#Manual

The 2 LAN ports are used in LACP (lagg0) and they work perfect. I enabled the WiFi onboard module from BIOS, but I can't get interface on system (see below).
I'm not FreeBSD expert, so please, any advice?

Thank you
Lucas

Code:
igb0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=b8<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 70:85:c2:8c:d9:00
        hwaddr 70:85:c2:8c:d9:02
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=98<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 70:85:c2:8c:d9:00
        hwaddr 70:85:c2:8c:d9:00
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        groups: lo
tap0: flags=8942<BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: Attached to HA_VM_1
        options=80000<LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:bd:b3:a9:f7:00
        hwaddr 00:bd:b3:a9:f7:00
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        groups: tap
        Opened by PID 3997
bridge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 02:ab:72:e3:1e:00
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        groups: bridge
        id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
        maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
        root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
        member: tap0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
                ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 128 path cost 2000000
lagg0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=98<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 70:85:c2:8c:d9:00
        inet 192.168.10.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
        nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        groups: lagg
        laggproto lacp lagghash l2,l3,l4
        laggport: igb0 flags=1c<ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING>
        laggport: em0 flags=1c<ACTIVE,COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING>
 

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It could be that there's no driver for that card in FreeNAS. Do you find it in dmesg?
 
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So you would need to do something that's clearly not supported by FreeNAS to make it work...

This guy made an unsuccessful attempt (possibly because the kernel modules he copied over are named in all caps and he didn't account for that in his load statements):
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/wireless-configuration-intel-3160-wi-fi.63532/

I'm not directly familiar with it, but it looks like you would need to load at least if_iwm to have something happen (you could copy the files to /boot/kernel and try kldload if_iwm.ko , if that works, you could then add a tunable to make it survive a reboot).
 

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Lucas Rey

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Thank you, so freenas is not supporting WiFi module. I'll search another way to do what I need! ;)
 

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If you really need to access over WiFi, you could use a WiFi bridge. Alternatively, OMV supports WiFi cards as far as I know.
 

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