Re: rtw88 vs rtwn Wi-Fi drivers

From: Steven Friedrich <freebsdlouisville_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 08:22:05 UTC
On 6/16/24 03:47, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2024, Steven Friedrich wrote:
>
>> slimline is an HP Slimline Desktop - 290-p0014
>>
>> Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
>> Coffee Lake (Core i7)
>> Ethernet    RTL8111/8168/8411 and RTL8125 2.5GbE
>> Wi-Fi RTL8821CE
>>
>> I have disabled Ethernet interfaces so I could concentrate on my 
>> Wi-Fi issue
>>
>> The on board Wi-Fi is this, but it won't associate.
> [...]
>> How can I help the developer find/fix this issue?
>
> Seems good news is that the laptop doesn't "hang" anymore.
>
> Do you get any logging in dmesg?  If you enable a level of debugging in
> wpa_supplicant, does it log anything helping?

Yes, /var/log/messages says it's timing out after 10 seconds:

Jun 15 22:48:52 Slimline wpa_supplicant[35434]: wlan0: Trying to 
associate with ??:??:??:??:??:?? (SSID='Verizon_C4J9FL' freq=2462 MHz)
Jun 15 22:49:02 Slimline wpa_supplicant[35434]: wlan0: Authentication 
with ??:??:??:??:??:?? timed out.
Jun 15 22:49:02 Slimline wpa_supplicant[35434]: wlan0: 
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=??:??:??:??:??:?? reason=3 locally_generated=1
Jun 15 22:49:02 Slimline wpa_supplicant[35434]: BSSID ??:??:??:??:??:?? 
ignore list count incremented to 2, ignoring for 10 seconds
Jun 15 22:49:02 Slimline wpa_supplicant[35434]: wlan0: 
CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid="Verizon_C4J9FL" auth_failures=7 
duration=90 reason=CONN_FAILED
Jun 15 22:49:02 Slimline wpa_supplicant[35434]: wlan0: 
CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all

Can this timeout be set in wpa_supplicant.conf?

>
> Which FreeBSD version are you running?
>
> 14.1 with daily git pulls, so I'm tracking stable-14.
>