Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2: now working

In reply to: Graham Perrin : "Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2 with main-n248042-f808bb9b7e5-dirty"
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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:10:52 UTC

On 23/07/2021 19:58, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 23/07/2021 19:38, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>> create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi"
>> You can try adding "up" to that string,
>
> No better.
>
> I previously tried `ifconfig wlan0 up`, and so on.
>
Correction! Apologies for the noise.

Things _did_ begin working with:

create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi up"

– wifimgr brought up the list of networks moments after I clicked Send.

Now it works _without_ the 'up' part.

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Re: the earlier failures, my best guess is that there was some dreg from 
misuse of iwn(4). 
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257361> for a bug in 
hardware notes.