On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <b...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2025, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Late last month I removed my 2.4G SSID from wpa_supplicant.conf which > > finally got my Intel Alder Lake card to associate with my 5G SSID and set > > the mode to 11ac. This worked fine until I re-booted. Now the network > > failed to start, spitting out repeated 'No beacon heard' messages with > the > > interface rapidly moving DOWN and then UP, finally giving up and leaving > > the Interface DOWN. > > > > After logging in, I did 'service netif start wlan0' and the network came > up > > fine and continued to be stable until I next rebooted the system when the > > same thing happened again. > > > > The log of the event is attached. Much is repetitive, but kept changing a > > bit until the network was restarted. > > I am seeing this at times in my development bhyve but I wasn't able to > pinpoint it to anything specific yet. > > service wpa_supplicant restart wlan0 > > should be enough to get you out of this; usually no need to throw away > the entire wireless interface and re-create it. I would say in 19 of 20 > times this happens that's doing the job for me; there are times when I > have to do it twice. > > Out of curiosity, was it warm restarts or cold boots from power off? > > -- > Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7 > Warm reboot in all cases. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
