Fwd: Problems with WiFi networks - HP 255 G7, FreeBSD 14.2
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Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:08:33 UTC
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mauricio <humo3302@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Problems with WiFi networks - HP 255 G7, FreeBSD 14.2 To: Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> Felt the need of clarifying that I still need to add the " compat.linuxkpi.skb.mem_limit=1" line in /boot/loader.conf for the WiFi card to work, actually. If I did not add the mentioned line, the WiFi card would work, but just for some minutes and then the connection will fail. On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM Mauricio <humo3302@gmail.com> wrote: > The suggestion of trying FreeBSD 14 STABLE ended with success. > I can use WiFi correctly now. > > One good thing i noticed is that i dont need to type anymore that > "linuxkpi..." in /boot/loader.conf anymore for the WiFi card to work > correctly. > > I'm really thankful for all your help. > I want to keep digging on this system and now its more easy. > > By the way, thanks for made me know about the risks of one of my text > files, however, i tought about it beforehand, and found that i had reasons > to not care about that for now. > Again, thanks for the help. > > El mié, 2 abr. 2025 7:30 p. m., Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> > escribió: > >> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> >> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, at 17:33, Mauricio wrote: >> >> > Hey! : ) >> >> > >> >> > I have decided to install FreeBSD 14.2 in my laptop (HP 255 G7). >> >> > This model use a WiFi card detected as rtw880 in the system. >> >> >> >> Welcome Mauricio! >> >> >> >> > I did the same for this 14.2 installation. And my WiFi card is >> >> > recognized when looking at the ifconfig output. >> >> TLDR try installing 14-STABLE to see if this is resolved. >> >> I wrote most of the notes below before finding PR283142, so just >> use it to refer to in future. >> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272145 seems relevant >> with https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=283903 >> as does https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=283142 which >> looks like a fix may already be in 14-STABLE, my suggestion would be >> to see if 14-STABLE works or not. >> >> > dmesg: https://pastebin.com/pYWAkSed >> >> rtw880: <rtw_8821ce> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xc0600000-0xc060ffff at >> device 0.0 on pci1 >> rtw880: successfully loaded firmware image 'rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin' >> rtw880: Firmware version 24.8.0, H2C version 12 >> >> > ifconfig: https://pastebin.com/JcETgrGU >> >> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu >> 1500 >> options=0 >> ether 00:e9:3a:db:06:fb >> groups: wlan >> ssid "" channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g). <--------- >> regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy ON >> deftxkey UNDEF txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme >> roaming MANUAL >> parent interface: rtw880 >> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) >> status: no carrier <------------------------- >> >> So you're not getting an IP address from DHCP server because no >> connection is being established to the access point (no carrier). >> >> While I can't diagnose this, you should grab output of wifi scan, >> and run wpa_supplicant in debug mode, and update one of the >> tickets above if its still an issue on 14-STABLE. >> >> # ifconfig -v wlan0 list scan >> # pkill -ilf wpa_supplicant >> # wpa_supplicant -tddi wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf >> >> You may need to sanitise this file, it may contain your wifi password >> >> A+ >> Dave >> >