Re: rtw88 vs rtwn Wi-Fi drivers

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024, Steven Friedrich wrote:

>
> 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.

Did you by any chance not set the loader tunable as documented in the
man page?

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7