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27.Dd November 10, 2024
28.Dt MT7921 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm mt7921
32.Nd MediaTek IEEE 802.11ax wireless network driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using
35.Xr devmatch 8
36if enabled in
37.Xr rc.conf 5 .
38.Pp
39Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following
40lines in
41.Xr rc.conf 5
42to manually load the driver as a module at boot time:
43.Bd -literal -offset indent
44kld_list="${kld_list} if_mt7921"
45.Ed
46.Pp
47The driver should automatically load any
48firmware needed for the particular chipset.
49.Pp
50It is discouraged to load the driver from
51.Xr loader 8 .
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Nm
55driver provides support for MediaTek MT7921E wireless network devices.
56.Nm
57is derived from MediaTek's Linux mt76 driver.
58.Pp
59This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work.
60The package
61.Pa wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod
62from the
63.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod
64port needs to be installed before the driver is loaded.
65Otherwise no
66.Xr wlan 4
67interface can be created using
68.Xr ifconfig 8 .
69One can use
70.Xr fwget 8
71to install the correct firmware package.
72.Pp
73The driver uses the
74.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here.
75.Sy linuxkpi_wlan
76and
77.Sy linuxkpi
78compat framework to bridge between the Linux and
79native
80.Fx
81driver code as well as to the native
82.Xr net80211 4
83wireless stack.
84.Sh HARDWARE
85The
86.Nm
87driver supports PCIe devices with the following chipsets:
88.Pp
89.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
90.It
91MediaTek MT7921E
92.El
93.Sh SEE ALSO
94.Xr wlan 4 ,
95.Xr networking 7 ,
96.Xr fwget 8 ,
97.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
98.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
99.Sh HISTORY
100The
101.Nm
102driver first appeared in
103.Fx 14.0 .
104.Sh BUGS
105Certainly.
106.Pp
107While
108.Nm
109supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax modes,
110the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11a/b/g modes.
111Support for 802.11n/ac/ax is to come.
112