[Bug 264238] WiFi stops working after upgrade from 13.0 to 13.1, AR9285 (wpa_supplicant)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 20:29:18 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264238 --- Comment #37 from rkoberman@gmail.com --- I am surprised to see this issue as the initial message showed both 13.1 and 13.0 to be associated with an SSID "WHU-STU". I should have looked more closely as I missed that they are the same SSID with radically different configurations. Both come from the same vendor but, with 13.1, both are setting up in a broken manner. "media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/1Mbps mode 11ng" is probably nonsensical. At least it is certainly wrong! DS is obsolete and has not ben use in year. 1Mbps does make some sense if your are using DS, but, even then, it's weird. I wish I could look at the ifconfig from when I was at the hotel, but I have not recorded it anywhere. The results of this WPA configured mode is very unlikely to work. I'm guessing that the issue is that the APs at your location is using MCS. Bet the hotel is, too. It's relatively new and I suspect the 13.1 wpa_supplicant is broken in how it deals with it. My home router does not use it. Only about a half dozen commits, from a quick look, to wpa_supplicant, so bisecting should not take too long, especially since it is in user space. If I had access to an AP that used MCS for selection, I'd do it myself, but I don't. If you have the interest and the time, it will be fairly simple. (One of the big things you get with git). teh commits of interest are: wpa: Import wpa 2.10. Cy Schubert 2022-02-08 22 -1500/+98 wpa: Import wpa_supplicant/hostapd commit b26f5c0fe Cy Schubert 2022-02-08 27 -110/+824 wpa: Import wpa_supplicant/hostapd commit 14ab4a816 Cy Schubert 2022-01-03 33 -203/+3129 wpa: Import wpa_supplicant/hostapd commits up to b4f7506ff Cy Schubert 2021-11-04 105 -2474/+19727 wpa: Add wpa_cli action file event Cy Schubert 2021-08-20 1 -0/+2 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.