[Bug 272732] hostapd error with rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8192EU, RF 6052 2T2R

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272732

--- Comment #8 from Stéphane Rochoy <stephane.rochoy@stormshield.eu> ---
I upgraded (using handbook's procedure[1]) to latest stable/13, namely
8c6964b779ce (2024-03-05 00:18:58 +0000) and didn't notice any improvement. 

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/

When the hardware is plugged, its LED start to blink and here's what written to
msgbuf:

rtwn0 on uhub2
rtwn0: <802.11n NIC > on usbus2
rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8192EU, RF 6052 2T2R
rtwn0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
rtwn0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
rtwn0: 2T2R
rtwn0: 11ng MCS 20MHz
rtwn0: MCS 0-7: 6.5Mbps - 65Mbps
rtwn0: MCS 8-15: 13Mbps - 130Mbps
rtwn0: 11ng MCS 20MHz SGI
rtwn0: MCS 0-7: 7Mbps - 72Mbps
rtwn0: MCS 8-15: 14.5Mbps - 144.5Mbps
wlan0: bpf attached
wlan0: Ethernet address: 28:87:ba:77:e2:0c
firmware: 'rtwn-rtl8192eufw' version 111: 31818 bytes loaded at
0xffffffff82ef7000
pflog0: bpf attached
pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
rtwn0: rtwn_tx_beacon_check: cannot push beacon into chip, error 60!
rtwn0: unable to push beacon into the chip, error 60
rtwn0: rtwn_newstate: could not move to RUN state

and here's what `ifconfig wlan0` say:

wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 28:87:ba:77:e2:0c
        inet 172.28.199.56 netmask 0xfffc0000 broadcast 172.31.255.255
        groups: wlan
        ssid Hu0eenee channel 10 (2457 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid 28:87:ba:77:e2:0c
        regdomain ETSI country FR authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30
        scanvalid 60 protmode CTS ht20 ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 16 shortgi
        -stbc -ldpc -uapsd wme dtimperiod 1 -dfs
        parent interface: rtwn0
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap>
        status: running
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

As vendor and product IDs cannot be seen in msgbuf, here's content of the
`dev.rtwn.0` sysctl node:

dev.rtwn.0.rx_buf_size: 24
dev.rtwn.0.ratectl_selected: 1
dev.rtwn.0.ratectl: 1
dev.rtwn.0.hwcrypto: 1
dev.rtwn.0.debug: 0
dev.rtwn.0.ht40: 0
dev.rtwn.0.%parent: uhub1
dev.rtwn.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x2357 product=0x0109 devclass=0x00
devsubclass=0x00 devproto=0x00 sernum="00e04c000001" release=0x0200 mode=host
intclass=0xff intsubclass=0xff intprotocol=0xff
dev.rtwn.0.%location: bus=2 hubaddr=1 port=4 devaddr=4 interface=0 ugen=ugen2.4
dev.rtwn.0.%driver: rtwn
dev.rtwn.0.%desc: 802.11n NIC

My /etc/hostapd.conf is as follow:

debug=2
accept_mac_file=/etc/hostapd.accept
ap_isolate=1
auth_algs=3
#channel=0
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
#driver=bsd
hw_mode=g
#ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
interface=wlan0
macaddr_acl=1
wpa=2
wpa_pairwise=CCMP
wpa_passphrase=PASSWORD
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

(I tried to be clever by adding `debug=2` to later discover it is deprecated
x_x)
And here's what happen when I `service start hostapd`:

Starting hostapd.
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.conf
Line 2: DEPRECATED: 'debug' configuration variable is not used anymore
bsd_ctrl_iface: if wlan0 (changed) enable 0 IFF_UP 0
BSS count 1, BSSID mask 00:00:00:00:00:00 (0 bits)
Completing interface initialization
hostapd_setup_bss(hapd=0x16dc9433f000 (wlan0), first=1)
bsd_set_privacy: enabled=0
bsd_set_key: alg=0 addr=0x0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
bsd_del_key: key_idx=0
bsd_set_key: alg=0 addr=0x0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
bsd_del_key: key_idx=1
bsd_set_key: alg=0 addr=0x0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
bsd_del_key: key_idx=2
bsd_set_key: alg=0 addr=0x0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
bsd_del_key: key_idx=3
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 28:87:ba:77:e2:0c and ssid "Hu0eenee"
Deriving WPA PSK based on passphrase
SSID - hexdump_ascii(len=8):
     48 75 30 65 65 6e 65 65
PSK (ASCII passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=8) [REMOVED]
PSK (from passphrase) - hexdump_ascii(len=32) [REMOVED]
bsd_set_ieee8021x: enabled=1
bsd_configure_wpa: enable WPA= 0x2

From here, the LED on the device is OFF and there's a delay of ~30 seconds
before:

…
Could not remove generic information element from interface wlan0
bsd_set_ieee8021x: enabled=0
ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=7, val=4, arg_len=0]: Network is down
Interface initialization failed
wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED
wlan0: AP-DISABLED
wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
…

(I transcribed most of the messages from a screenshot, I didn't investigate the
reason why all this messages were not part of /var/log/daemon.log or
/var/log/debug.log)

I didn't have time to install net/hostapd. I'll try that today or tomorrow.

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