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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:10:14 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Why WiFi connections are established so slowly?
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmomYvfBatgSRuzGH2yBtk7JdCdZbRFAcjRAqsowqc12Pqw@mail.gmail.com>
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It'd be interesting to figure out how much each step is taking. Eg, USB
detect, firmware load, create interface, bstart wpa_supplicant, etc - that
should be quick. I wonder if scan is taking forever..


On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 16:03, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:

> I just measured: 20-40 seconds elapse between the insertion of the WiFi
> card and the host obtaining IP address. This is quite slow IMHO. It is
> hard to imagine that exchanging a few packets back and forth should take
> that long.
>
>
> Is something wrong with my setup? Can there be some bug that affects
> this? Or should this be considered normal?
>
>
> /etc/rc.config has:
>
> wlans_run0="wlan0"
>
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
>
> wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
>
> wpa_supplicant_program="/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant"
>
>
> run(4), FreeBSD 12 amd64.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yuri
>
>
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