Re: Daily update - iwlwifi / LinuxKPI bsaed wireless

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025, ltning-freebsd-wireless@anduin.net wrote:

> On 4/12/25 00:19, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> thanks to all who tested the various changes and reported back!
>> 
>> The changes are in main and I'll MFC them in 3-4 days to stable/14.
>> 
> .....> If you think I need t pay special attention to anything for 
> 14.3-RELEASE
>> please let me know sooner than later.
>
> Things are working quite well for me, with my troublesome Amplifi APs 
> (they've been problematic even back on 802.11a/b/g). From time to time I get 
> disconnected and (it seems) I need to manually "sudo ifconfig wlan0 scan" 
> once or twice to get it to reconnect to the AP. One such event happened just 
> a little while ago, after rebuilding/rebooting kernel revision 
> main-6c3a4b5f9b7b.

I am still not sure why that is.  I see it at times as well.  I had with
iwm(4) and I do with rtwn(4) currently (more rarely but still do).
We do have open PRs for iwlwifi (probably more noticeable there as I
left the printfs on if it happens).


> Other than that, there are no issues with suspend/resume (that I can say with

Still in progress...

> any kind of certainty is iwlwifi's fault), speed is good, and it works better 
> with my iPhone as hotspot than it has ever done - I can literally stay 
> connected for many hours on end. In the past I'd often have to reboot the 
> laptop in order to reconnect after losing connectivity.

Thanks for sharing the good news and for the testing.
Happy to hear positive feedback!

Lots of health,
Bjoern

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7