iwlwifi (AX210)
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 07:43:24 UTC
Hi, I've got an AX210 chip in a Framework laptop that I've (hackily) gotten working with iwlwifi tonight... as with some other reports, the firmware dies in a terrible fire with the stock wpa configuration. Investigation lead to the following chain of observations: 1. Without WPA at play, I can trigger a scan and it works 2. Starting WPA, the firmware dies. 3. I can avoid it by setting ap_scan=0 in wpa_supplicant.conf and just triggering a scan manually, e.g., in /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant's wpa_poststart 4. I can hack around it altogether without modifying the service by just never passing ssids into the scan request in wpa_supplicant's bsd driver: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/iwlhack.diff -- of course, then it doesn't consult the cache... but at least my wifi works. :-) I'm sticking with #4 for now because that' the most maintainable of the local hacks that I've put together, but it'd be nice to understand what's going on... a cursory review of the path from net80211 through to iwlwifi didn't seem to turn up anything too hinky. I haven't tested whether there's some difference in specific ssid vs. wildcard ssid. Thoughts? Thanks, Kyle Evans