From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Fri Jul 29 22:54:41 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14C0BA712E for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x230.google.com (mail-io0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BB071556 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by mail-io0-x230.google.com with SMTP id 38so141675513iol.0 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:54:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=mvgU3x8BK2e266yMUMOQ7G+bipI3tl0GIdmOLzp657o=; b=IQX/ELw7V02MAp3b+WldBGjnGARqNir/p88PBXHXxkRhhsKBhP6NoJIr3CfSfB0dFB DvngClaEvzmmguJ3TMKSZ/JNrkpUpJwOUC/jLTrwQPrGwHThAxqMvkCf56w9ymIwrXP1 RCTLy7y6+o5k9RudUgxneqyeB3PTvCk64JWrJ5VelrNc17UTCWTzhir3YBow8WeYqshE ixyfw3FQOcC6KUJe9p7+KJpV7LQ0KObS2PKyJ9GpTVx//9ONobj6IYLDaBy6U/C9S3Wu nzqL0S8ISBuODupuEWPWfgsb6ObjNR9nw1dqGopsW9FDAdnnpQDsDoH7+wENTR9rtsi5 8OdA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=mvgU3x8BK2e266yMUMOQ7G+bipI3tl0GIdmOLzp657o=; b=E3SwY+zJ1dbpFF79TfYXo9efOsa7fk+WpH6EJ3Kv1waB2B8e32Nmd98fzT164OrcWe L8BlD/v1ytgViBJ5uzi20s2ocjaJNvoO/ggkSVcEwErMgBb00XiOEujKXyQkVIHEFaqd GRpKDNQDjYLF4fDMgs5NHpgRi1wSf7NaxLQfb69uD4LEXcREwI8lyuIIwGR4OY9sJJKE I/EsmKMgdoVWyLUYiTn5S715obWUWnexHqiVFE7x8nBHiZBkTznrqXFRe1NFX8hUcYle N17c/xgIEkgW07aqNdJOsf5h3qIGjclFTdL8B+MKrvrajSC8Akhfp6kiWtESnTOEqkA2 Wn9A== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouuOaDXaTAy/j7cqXg74WVUdVhX+NPOA0X8xxf8nkAhVmvZNWInJCwZHmNT7FRzswNWNa5gLZNsWwm8+qQ== X-Received: by 10.107.15.229 with SMTP id 98mr2928002iop.123.1469832881066; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:54:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.141.129 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:54:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160729151114.GH4313@blisses.org> References: <20160729151114.GH4313@blisses.org> From: Adrian Chadd Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:54:40 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Disappointment with wifi... To: Mason Loring Bliss Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 02:27:39 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:54:41 -0000 On 29 July 2016 at 08:11, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:05:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> FreeBSD wireless progresses at the rate at which people pay for FreeBSD! >> You should let your vendor know about your problem! > > That's what I'm doing now! :P Heh. If you didn't pay, then there's no vendor. :) >> $ ifconfig -v wlan0 list sta >> $ ifconfig -v wlan0 >> $ ifconfig -v wlan0 list scan > > Alright. I'm attaching these. The signal strength is pretty weak despite my > being somewhat close to the WAP. (Which is, FWIW, a node in a small Unifi > zero- handoff network.) That said, I manage solid connection with this laptop > in the same spot running Linux, and with MacBooks. Heh, I'm pretty sure that the vendors in question have spent more than $0.00 on their wifi development. For us it's all for love and spare time. > I'll happily supply more diagnostic information, as needed. > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 01:17:07AM -0400, Allan Jude wrote: > >> I have a T530, it has the same 6205 wifi chip, and it works fine. > > Same here running Linux. It's only problematic with FreeBSD driving the > hardware. I'd very much like FreeBSD to be driving this unproblematically. > > >> I have sometimes had better luck by disabling ht20 (ifconfig wlan0 >> -ht20), but I don't recall the last time I had to do that. > > This was briefly hopeful. I set that in rc.conf and rebooted, and I got a > quick, solid connection. But then through several subsequent reboots my wifi > light is flashing and connectivity is sporadic at best, with the same > messages piling into the console. Let's post a dmesg as well, in case it's something silly (like firmware crashing or whatnot.) -adrian