Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:54:40 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disappointment with wifi... Message-ID: <CAJ-VmonnYpHkuZ=vmr29A5GhYWWD9NPUF0ky4Ljj0qgrFpt=dA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160729151114.GH4313@blisses.org> References: <e25f2ae8-5ba1-e9f0-670f-2b2de2606116@mail.lifanov.com> <ac4a7620-2aa3-3299-084d-c2d38b1820eb@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmon3-Kp2gODBTzf=go0GDOs_OP0K=Uwo-MTT4p2mJhfiCg@mail.gmail.com> <20160729151114.GH4313@blisses.org>
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On 29 July 2016 at 08:11, Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> 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
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