Does the Wifibox currently support the Intel BE200 WiFi 7 card?

[ChomperT]

In September 2023 and November 2023, the firmware was updated for the following two components.
iwlwifi-ma-b0-gf-a0-83.ucode
iwlwifi-ma-b0-gf-a0-86.ucode

[pgj]

Is the question that whether the recent release of Wifibox includes these firmware files?

[pgj]

The 20230926 version of Wifibox/Alpine (the "firmware" of Wifibox) includes the 20230919 version of linux-firmware. This version does not yet have the referenced files but 20231211. Therefore the answer is probably no.

I can update linux-firmware to 20231211 in the development repository if you wish to give it a try. But it may also need a more up-to-date driver which means updating the Linux kernels too. We will see.

[ChomperT]

I will try this version, thank you for your reply

[ChomperT]

I tried testing this version yesterday, and currently, it cannot recognize the BE200 network card properly.

[pgj]

Please try it again now with the 20240116 version of the net/wifibox-alpine port. It includes the 20240115 version of linux-firmware. Note that, by default, the port will use Linux 6.1 (LTS), but if it does not work, you can try to use Linux 6.5 (edge) by setting the KERN_EDGE option.

[ChomperT]

I tried this version and it works fine!

[pgj]

I am glad to hear that! Was it enough to use the LTS kernel or did it work only with the edge?

[ChomperT]

edge kernel