[Bug 287262] ieee80211_sta_join: BSS a2:b5:3c:9e:20:b8: 2GHz channel, VHT info; ignoring

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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:26:34 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287262

            Bug ID: 287262
           Summary: ieee80211_sta_join: BSS a2:b5:3c:9e:20:b8: 2GHz
                    channel, VHT info; ignoring
           Product: Base System
           Version: 15.0-CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: wireless
          Assignee: wireless@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: trasz@FreeBSD.org

My 15-CURRENT sometimes starts doing this every ten minutes or so:

Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: MBO: Disable MBO/OCE due to
misbehaving AP not having enabled PMF
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: wlan0: Trying to associate with
a2:b5:3c:9e:20:b8 (SSID='Vodafone9E20B0' freq=2452 MHz)
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=20, val=0,
arg_len=7]: Can't assign requested address
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED
bssid=a2:b5:3c:9e:20:b8 reason=0
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq dhclient[3360]: wlan0 link state up -> down
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: wlan0: BSSID a2:b5:3c:9e:20:b8
ignore list count incremented to 3, ignoring for 60 seconds
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: MBO: Disable MBO/OCE due to
misbehaving AP not having enabled PMF
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: wlan0: Trying to associate with
82:b5:3c:9f:8f:d7 (SSID='Vodafone9E20B0' freq=5580 MHz)
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq kernel: ieee80211_sta_join: BSS a2:b5:3c:9e:20:b8: 2GHz
channel, VHT info; ignoring
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq kernel: Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq syslogd: last message
repeated 1 times
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq kernel: wlan0: link state changed to DOWN
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq kernel: ieee80211_node_get_txrate_dot11rate: called for
VHT / unknown rate (type 3)!
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: wlan0: Associated with
82:b5:3c:9f:8f:d7
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq dhclient[3360]: wlan0 link state down -> up
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq dhclient[3360]: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255
port 67
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq dhclient[3360]: send_packet: No buffer space available
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: MBO: Disable MBO/OCE due to
misbehaving AP not having enabled PMF
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: wlan0: WPA: Key negotiation
completed with 82:b5:3c:9f:8f:d7 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq wpa_supplicant[1323]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED -
Connection to 82:b5:3c:9f:8f:d7 completed [id=0 id_str=]
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq kernel: ieee80211_node_get_txrate_dot11rate: called for
VHT / unknown rate (type 3)!
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq kernel: wlan0: link state changed to UP
Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq kernel: Jun  3 14:04:25 pustaq dhclient[3360]:
send_packet: No buffer space available
Jun  3 14:04:33 pustaq dhclient[3360]: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255
port 67
Jun  3 14:04:33 pustaq dhclient[3360]: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Jun  3 14:04:33 pustaq dhclient[8267]: New IP Address (wlan0): 192.168.1.185
Jun  3 14:04:33 pustaq dhclient[8271]: New Subnet Mask (wlan0): 255.255.255.0
Jun  3 14:04:33 pustaq dhclient[8275]: New Broadcast Address (wlan0):
192.168.1.255
Jun  3 14:04:33 pustaq dhclient[8279]: New Routers (wlan0): 192.168.1.1
Jun  3 14:04:33 pustaq dhclient[3360]: bound to 192.168.1.185 -- renewal in
2147483647 seconds.

This is with iwx(4), and it seems to work just fine; only after I looked at
logs I noticed it's doing anything other than printing out that warning.  I
believe I've seen the same "VHT info" kernel message with iwlwifi(4) too.

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