Problems with WLAN - iwm0

Michael Neumann mneumann at ntecs.de
Sun Apr 19 04:34:26 PDT 2020


Hi,

I can't get my WLAN working here with iwm0 on DragonFly 5.8.0. It always shows
"status: no carrier". I double checked with a recent FreeBSD (12.1), and there,
the same commands on the command line work. This is an open WLAN, I haven't
tested it with wpa supplicant.  Note that on FreeBSD I have to explicitly
specify the channel, otherwise I can't get it to work either.

Any ideas?

# dmesg | grep iwm0

    iwm0: hw rev 0x230, fw ver 22.361476.0, address 74:70:fd:fa:5a:3c

# kldstat

    Id Refs Address            Size     Name
     1   12 0xffffffff80200000 1eb5520  kernel
     2    1 0xffffffff820b6000 c8f8     ehci.ko
     3    1 0xffffffff820c3000 cec0     xhci.ko
     4    1 0xffffffff820d0000 11c50    dm.ko
     5    1 0xffffffff820e2000 1d6b8    if_iwm.ko
     6    1 0xffffffff82100000 1bb250   iwm8265fw.ko

# ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 up

    wlan0: driver didn't set altq_maxlen
    wlan0: MAC address: 74:70:fd:fa:5a:3c
    wlan0

# ifconfig wlan0 scan

    SSID/MESH ID    BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS
    my-ssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx    9   54M   0:0    100 E    HTCAP WME

# ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 channel 9 ssid my-ssid up

    re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
            options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
            ether 80:fa:5b:62:db:72
            media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
            status: no carrier
    lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
            options=43<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RSS>
            inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
            inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
            inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
            groups: lo 
    wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
            inet6 fe80::7670:fdff:fefa:5a3c%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
            ether 74:70:fd:fa:5a:3c
            groups: wlan 
            ssid my-ssid channel 9 (2452 MHz 11g)
            country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60
            protmode CTS wme bintval 0
            media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
            status: no carrier

Regards,

  Michael



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