On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 16:59 Oleg Nauman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2025, Oleg Nauman wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, 5 Sep 2025, Oleg Nauman wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi Oleg,
> > >>
> > >>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hi,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> with the changes (especially for scanning--rtw88) and all the other
> > >>>> minor details gone in the last days I would love to ask people to
> test
> > >>>> as much as they can on main before I'll merge to stable/14 and also
> > >>>> given stable/15 is imminent.
> > >>>
> > >>> Unfortunately rtw88 now ( CURRENT revision d3462294c1f0 ) can't
> > >>> associate with access points while It was working in 659962f96a15 (
> > >>> Jul 29 )
> > >>
> > >> I just pushed
> > >>
> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b568711f8ef1afd7c86ea2d8bd2f94f399f54dc1
> > >> into main.
> > >
> > > I  am sorry but nothing changed so it still can not be associated.
> > >
> > > Well,  I have some interesting observations related to this issue
> > > If I perform soft reboot after rtw88 testing and start wifibox service
> > > ( I am using it as backup wifi based on the same wireless adapter ),
> > > then wifibox fails to initialize wireless adapter.  It never happens
> >
> > That is Linux fails to reset the card too?
>

Sorry missed your question. wifibox fails to reset this card only after
soft reboot after rtw88 testing , otherwise it is stable and never was
causing issues.

>
> > > if I performing power off /on sequence after rtw88 testing.
> > > I suspect that rtw88 fails to correctly initialize my wireless
> > > adapter and/or firmware crash
> > >
> > > rtw880@pci0:2:0:0:      class=0x028000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec
> > > device=0xc821 subvendor=0x1a3b subdevice=0x3040
> > >    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
> > >    device     = 'RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter'
> > >    class      = network
> > >
> > > rtw880: <rtw_8821ce> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xef100000-0xef10ffff irq
> > > 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> > > rtw880: successfully loaded firmware image 'rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin'
> > > rtw880: Firmware version 24.11.0, H2C version 12
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you for your hard work
> > > Please let me know how can I debug it further
> >
> > Do you have more logging of this?
> >
> > Can you try to:
> >
> > set wlandebug for the interface to 0xffffffff (all)
> > Set
> >         kern.msgbufsize=4587520
> >         kern.msgbuf_show_timestamp=2
> >         compat.linuxkpi.80211.debug=0x00100041
> > in loader.conf
> >
> > Gather dmesg for me for when it is failing to associate?
>
> I will try to run it tomorrow. Sorry I can't promise but let me try
> Now I am extremely limited to 10 hours of electricity supply per day
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > >> If you can confirm that it works before Wednesday afternoon UTC, then
> I can get
> > >> it to stable/15 and into 15.0-RELEASE still.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks a lot for reporting, reminding me, and all the testing you are
> always
> > >> doing.  I am sorry it took so long to get this fixed.
> > >>
> > >> Lost of health,
> > >> /bz
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Bjoern A. Zeeb
>  r15:7
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7
>

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