wireless interface does not come up on boot
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:26:28 UTC
Greetings, I'm having trouble with my wireless interface on a FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE installed Laptop. The wlan0 interface that uses the iwlwifi driver does not come up after booting. I have to bring it up manually. I was advised to email this list as it is suspected to be some issue with the driver. I have a DELL XPS-13 9360 model laptop in which I've replaced the M2 slot wifi adapter with a wifi 6e adapter using an AX210 chip, wise tiger is the brand name. I've properly configured wpa_supplicant to join an AP in my home and I have the following options in /etc/rc.conf: wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan0" ifconfig_iwlwifi0="WPA DHCP" The interface does not come up after booting the laptop. In troubleshooting I've found that I can manualy bring the interface up using the following commands: # ifconfig wlan0 up scan # wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf & # dhclient wlan0 Once I bring up the interface, everything works as expected. I'm composing and sending this email from the machine now that I've manually brought up the interface. I have no idea, why the interface does not come up automatically following a boot. I've noticed errors loading up firmware for the adapter and was wondering if this could be throwing off the timing during boot? Here are the iwlwifi messages logged during boot: iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0xdc100000-0xdc103fff at device 0.0 on pci2 iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-70.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-69.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode' iwlwifi0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver iwlwifi0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.36 iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 68.01d30b0c.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode op_mode iwlmvm iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz, REV=0x420 iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pnvm' iwlwifi0: loaded PNVM version dda57f4f iwlwifi0: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x10d000 iwlwifi0: base HW address: 84:14:4d:04:e4:0d iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0xdc100000-0xdc103fff at device 0.0 on pci2 iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-70.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-69.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode' iwlwifi0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver iwlwifi0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.36 iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 68.01d30b0c.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode op_mode iwlmvm iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz, REV=0x420 iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pnvm' iwlwifi0: loaded PNVM version dda57f4f iwlwifi0: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x10d000 iwlwifi0: base HW address: 84:14:4d:04:e4:0d iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0xdc100000-0xdc103fff at device 0.0 on pci2 iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-70.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-69.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode' iwlwifi0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver iwlwifi0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.36 iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 68.01d30b0c.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode op_mode iwlmvm iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz, REV=0x420 iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pnvm' iwlwifi0: loaded PNVM version dda57f4f iwlwifi0: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x10d000 iwlwifi0: base HW address: 84:14:4d:04:e4:0d iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 0xdc100000-0xdc103fff at device 0.0 on pci2 iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-70.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-69.ucode' iwlwifi0: File size way too small! iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode' iwlwifi0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver iwlwifi0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.36 iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 68.01d30b0c.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-68.ucode op_mode iwlmvm iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz, REV=0x420 iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-ty-a0-gf-a0.pnvm' iwlwifi0: loaded PNVM version dda57f4f iwlwifi0: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x10d000 iwlwifi0: base HW address: 84:14:4d:04:e4:0d iwlwifi0: No beacon heard and the session protection is over already... iwlwifi0: Not associated and the session protection is over already... iwlwifi0: Not associated and the session protection is over already... I hope someone here can help me to resolve this issue. Thanks very much John Rushford jrushford@apache.org