Re: iwlwifi/LinuxKPI 802.11 update
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 19:33:20 UTC
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > Hi, > > as you may have noticed I've just pushed a few changes into main which > I hope will solve some of the problems people have been seeing with > stability. > > Everyone running HEAD: it would be great to see if these commits help you. > There are still more rough edges to sort out and probably some cases > I could not test/reproduce but piling more up isn't helpful. > > For eveyone on stable/13: I'll try to get all other changes (before > today) moerged to stable/13 and will merge these in 3-ish days as > well. You could always cherry-pick them manually yourself. Let me > know if you would want to and need help for that. > > > Things I noticed: > > (a) if you think you "cannot connect" it might be that wpa_supplicant > managed to associate but not authorize. I have that once in a while. > Check your wpa_supplicant logs (possibly increase the log level). > > Usually triggering a successful scan (I often have to try twice): > ifconfig wlan0 scan > ifconfig wlan0 scan > will then DTRT for me and on 2nd attempt authorizing will work. > > If wpa_supplicant decided to disable the network temporary > (wpa_cli list_networks will tell) you can disable / enable > the network to unblock that as well. > > (b) ifconfig wlanX down / up needs some state to clear as well > to work better. I'll look into that probably Thursday along > with hw_restart so that we can recover from firmware crashes > if general state got better now. > > > Bjoern Hey Bjoern, Thanks a lot for your hard work! A while ago (few months ago), we talked about issues relating to iwlwifi and lagg failover. Should I give lagg failover another try at this point? Thanks, -- Shawn Webb Cofounder / Security Engineer HardenedBSD https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/pubkeys/-/raw/master/Shawn_Webb/03A4CBEBB82EA5A67D9F3853FF2E67A277F8E1FA.pub.asc