Re: Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 24 Jul 2021, at 0:15, Rozhuk Ivan wrote:


On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:26:02 +0100
Graham Perrin  wrote:


According to ,
iwm(4) should work.



If your CPU can run byhive - do not waste time, install OpenWRT
and let it be your WiFi driver:


Which as we found out isn’t always working either, especially with 
cards from some vendors:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31241

(though we actually ran FreeBSD inside trying to make that better).

/bz

Re: Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2

[Rozhuk Ivan]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:26:02 +0100
Graham Perrin  wrote:

> According to ,
> iwm(4) should work.
> 

If your CPU can run byhive - do not waste time, install OpenWRT
and let it be your WiFi driver:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-June/056170.html

You will got: full AC speed, additional FW, nice GUI.

Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2: now working

[Graham Perrin]

On 23/07/2021 19:58, Graham Perrin wrote:

On 23/07/2021 19:38, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi"

You can try adding "up" to that string,


No better.

I previously tried `ifconfig wlan0 up`, and so on.


Correction! Apologies for the noise.

Things _did_ begin working with:

create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi up"

– wifimgr brought up the list of networks moments after I clicked Send.

Now it works _without_ the 'up' part.



Re: the earlier failures, my best guess is that there was some dreg from 
misuse of iwn(4). 
 for a bug in 
hardware notes.

Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2 with main-n248042-f808bb9b7e5-dirty

[Graham Perrin]

Thanks,

On 23/07/2021 19:38, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi"

You can try adding "up" to that string,


No better.

I previously tried `ifconfig wlan0 up`, and so on.

I'll update the OS.

Maybe it's a bug in this main-n248042-f808bb9b7e5-dirty, which has a 
slightly outdated patch from .

Re: Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> According to , iwm(4) 
> should work.
> 
> Neither wpa_gui (with wpa_supplicant-devel 2021.06.14) nor 
> net-mgt/wifimgr can detect any network.
> 
> What am I missing?

I am not sure.. but... see below...

> 
> /etc/rc.conf includes:
> 
> create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi"

You can try adding "up" to that string, I would think
the this was already handled by the wlan ifconfig code
though, but given your output the devices was never
brought up.

> wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
> 
> 
> 
> wlan0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500
   ^UP is missing, the interface has not been started.

>  ??? ether ?:?:?:?:?:?
>  ??? groups: wlan
>  ??? ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
>  ??? regdomain ETSI country GB authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30
>  ??? bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 wme bintval 0
>  ??? parent interface: iwm0
>  ??? media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>  ??? status: no carrier
>  ??? nd6 options=29
> 
> 
> 
> FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 main-n248042-f808bb9b7e5-dirty: Sat Jul 17 
> 16:15:31 EDT 2021 
> root@testpc-freebsd.davidgroup:/usr/obj/usr/home/david/FreeBSD/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC
>  
> 1400026 1400026
> 
> 

-- 
Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org

Wi-Fi: HP ZBook 17 G2

[Graham Perrin]

According to , iwm(4) 
should work.


Neither wpa_gui (with wpa_supplicant-devel 2021.06.14) nor 
net-mgt/wifimgr can detect any network.


What am I missing?

/etc/rc.conf includes:

create_args_wlan0="country GB regdomain etsi"
wlans_iwm0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"



wlan0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether ⋯:⋯:⋯:⋯:⋯:⋯
    groups: wlan
    ssid "" channel 1 (2412 MHz 11b)
    regdomain ETSI country GB authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30
    bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 wme bintval 0
    parent interface: iwm0
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
    status: no carrier
    nd6 options=29



FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 main-n248042-f808bb9b7e5-dirty: Sat Jul 17 
16:15:31 EDT 2021 
root@testpc-freebsd.davidgroup:/usr/obj/usr/home/david/FreeBSD/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC 
1400026 1400026