Re: rtw88 vs rtwn Wi-Fi drivers

From: Steven Friedrich <freebsdlouisville_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:24:08 UTC
It's associating on my HP Envy system.  I may have been cloning the re1 
MAC to wlan0.  Somewhere I read that some WiFi don't allow you to 
replace their MAC.


My other system, an HP Slimline is being installed right now. I'll let 
you know if this fixes my associate anomaly.



On 6/16/24 10:33, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 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?
>