Re: Unable to have network reliably start at boot time

Correct. 13-STABLE from Mar. 5.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:36 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <
bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:47 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <
> > bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> I have tried loading if_iwlwifi at boot by both /boot/loader.conf and
> >>> /etc/rc.conf. In the /boot/loader case, the firmware fails to load with
> >> the
> >>> message "File size way too small!" for all available versions of
> >> microcode
> >>> including "wlwifi-cc-a0-68.ucode" which should be used for my AX200.
> For
> >>
> >> Loading from loader is discuraged;  if you really want to see this
> >> thread:
> >>
> >>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2021-December/000153.html
> >>
> >>
> >> On FreeBSD Current, you don't even have to load the module at all
> anymore;
> >> it'll automatically loaded for you (soon also in stable/13).
> >>
> >>
> >>> /etc/rc.conf, there appears to be a race condition where the network
> >> tries
> >>> to start before the microcode load has completed.
> >>
> >> That is a weird case and I thought that should not happen anymore as
> >> the wlan interface should always only be created after the firmware
> >> successfully loaded.
> >>
> >> I see I have an email from you in my inbox as well; in case it's not
> >> in there, can you send me the console (dmesg -a) output of that case
> >> so I can have a look?
> >>
> >> /bz
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7
> >>
> >
> > I'm only assuming that the firmware load is leading to the problem, but
> > I've looked closer and that is likely not the case as I see:
> > iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0xd1300000-0xd1303fff at device 0.0 on pci2
> > iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-cc-a0-67.ucode'
> > iwlwifi0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
> > iwlwifi0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 89.3.35.37
> > iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 67.8f59b80b.0 cc-a0-67.ucode op_mode
> > iwlmvm
> > iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz, REV=0x340
> >
> > and, after the network fails to start, I see:
> > iwlwifi0: Detected RF HR B3, rfid=0x10a100
> > iwlwifi0: base HW address: 6c:6a:77:ed:ce:d9
> >
> > The failure generates no messages. Just shows git0 and lo0 starting
> > normally. I assume that this is because wlan0 has not been created at
> this
> > point. While there are many lines of messages in the log between these
> > messages, they are all logged in the same second.
>
> I had a look.  You are on stable/13, right?
>
> If so, I just asked for e0ab0ff104cb0e817d47a1a2a235f915ec1a31f4 to be
> MFCed as that likely prevents your wlan from starting if the wlan
> interface is not there yet by the time we run (the "global") netif start.
>
> If this was on HEAD please let me know and I'll have to dig deeper.
>
> Later,
> /bz
>
> --
> Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7
>


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