Disappointment with wifi...

[Adrian Chadd]

On 29 July 2016 at 08:11, Mason Loring Bliss <mason at blisses.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:05:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> FreeBSD wireless progresses at the rate at which people pay for FreeBSD!
>> You should let your vendor know about your problem!
>
> That's what I'm doing now! :P

Heh. If you didn't pay, then there's no vendor. :)

>> $ ifconfig -v wlan0 list sta
>> $ ifconfig -v wlan0
>> $ ifconfig -v wlan0 list scan
>
> Alright. I'm attaching these. The signal strength is pretty weak despite my
> being somewhat close to the WAP. (Which is, FWIW, a node in a small Unifi
> zero- handoff network.) That said, I manage solid connection with this laptop
> in the same spot running Linux, and with MacBooks.

Heh, I'm pretty sure that the vendors in question have spent more than
$0.00 on their wifi development. For us it's all for love and spare
time.

> I'll happily supply more diagnostic information, as needed.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 01:17:07AM -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
>
>> I have a T530, it has the same 6205 wifi chip, and it works fine.
>
> Same here running Linux. It's only problematic with FreeBSD driving the
> hardware. I'd very much like FreeBSD to be driving this unproblematically.
>
>
>> I have sometimes had better luck by disabling ht20 (ifconfig wlan0
>> -ht20), but I don't recall the last time I had to do that.
>
> This was briefly hopeful. I set that in rc.conf and rebooted, and I got a
> quick, solid connection. But then through several subsequent reboots my wifi
> light is flashing and connectivity is sporadic at best, with the same
> messages piling into the console.

Let's post a dmesg as well, in case it's something silly (like
firmware crashing or whatnot.)



-adrian