Re: Mac andom does not work with wl driver
Hi, I am wondering why the cloned mac is not working. As such this is for sure not a driver issue, since I am able to setup a random mac and able to easiy successfully connect manually using wpa_supplicant. So it is network manager doing something which wl does not like. Could that be unset so that the config generated by networkmanager matches a simple config generated by wpa_passphrase ? Sorry, i dont see a reason why a random mac must have an issue with wl driver. -- Regards, Bhasker C V On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 7:46 PM Bhasker C V wrote: > Thank you very much Beniamino Galvani, > I tried b43 driver and the performance was very poort for my BCM4331 > (macbook pro) wifi. Hence I moved to wl. > I give it another try > > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:07 AM Beniamino Galvani > wrote: > >> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 01:32:59AM +0100, Bhasker C V via >> networkmanager-list wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > My wifi works (thanks for bwtnguy who pointed me to the issue) >> > However when I turn on >> > wifi.cloned-mac-address=stable >> > The NM does not connect to wifi anymore. >> > >> > My driver is wl. I use it with BCM4331 chip wifi card. >> > debian bullseye (NetworkManager==1.30.0 wpa_supplicant==v2.9) >> > Is this a known issue? Is there a fix for this ? >> >> Hi, >> >> this is a known issue, the Broadcom wl driver doesn't work well if the >> MAC is changed. Unfortunately the driver is closed and so only >> Broadcom can fix this problem. >> >> According to this [1] the 'b43' open source driver supports >> BCM4331. You could try if it works better. >> >> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx >> >> Beniamino >> > ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Mac andom does not work with wl driver
Thank you very much Beniamino Galvani, I tried b43 driver and the performance was very poort for my BCM4331 (macbook pro) wifi. Hence I moved to wl. I give it another try On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 8:07 AM Beniamino Galvani wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 01:32:59AM +0100, Bhasker C V via > networkmanager-list wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My wifi works (thanks for bwtnguy who pointed me to the issue) > > However when I turn on > > wifi.cloned-mac-address=stable > > The NM does not connect to wifi anymore. > > > > My driver is wl. I use it with BCM4331 chip wifi card. > > debian bullseye (NetworkManager==1.30.0 wpa_supplicant==v2.9) > > Is this a known issue? Is there a fix for this ? > > Hi, > > this is a known issue, the Broadcom wl driver doesn't work well if the > MAC is changed. Unfortunately the driver is closed and so only > Broadcom can fix this problem. > > According to this [1] the 'b43' open source driver supports > BCM4331. You could try if it works better. > > [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx > > Beniamino > ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
AW: AccessPoint 5GHz DFS Channel Radar Detection Failure
Hello, thanks for your answer. I'm creating the connection on band wifi band a using this command: nmcli con add type wifi ifname wlan0 autoconnect yes ssid $(hostname) 802-11-wireless.mode ap 802-11-wireless.band a 802-11-wireless.channel 100 ipv4.addresses 192.168.201.1/24 ipv4.method shared wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk wifi-sec.psk TEST12345 I had a few problems to bring up the access point first, but when I changed the 802-1x.auth-timeout to 90 seconds (CAC time) and send the correct country code to wpa_supplicant over dbus the access point is coming up as it should. Everything is fine until I need to switch the channel because a radar event is detected by the driver. To simulate the radar event I use a debug feature of the WLink8 driver. I use the debugfs and write the channel to a specific file: echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/wlcore/wl18xx/radar_detection for triggering a radar event on channel 100. We used this in the past with hostapd and it worked really good. I'm not sure how I can tell wpa_supplicant to use wlan0 instead of p2p-dev-wlan0. I only create the nmcli connection and I think the network manager is then configuring wpa_supplicant over dbus. Thanks Nadja -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Beniamino Galvani Gesendet: Montag, 10. Mai 2021 08:59 An: Stärk Nadja Cc: networkmanager-list@gnome.org Betreff: Re: AccessPoint 5GHz DFS Channel Radar Detection Failure [ NICHT VERSCHLUESSELT ] [ SIGNATUR_UNPRUEFBAR ] On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 09:16:44AM +, Stärk Nadja wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working with NetworkManager v1.22.8 and face some issues with my 5 GHz > access point. > > I need to create it on DFS channel 100 and when a radar event is detected the > channel should be switched. > > Debug output of wpa_supplicant is enabled. > If I send a radar event through the debugfs to channel 100 now, I can see > that it was received by wpa_supplicant: > > nl80211: Event message available > > nl80211: Drv Event 94 (NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT) received for > p2p-dev-wlan0 > > nl80211: DFS event on freq 5500 MHz, ht: 1, offset: 0, width: 1, cf1: > 5500MHz, cf2: 0MHz > > p2p-dev-wlan0: Event DFS_RADAR_DETECTED (42) received Hi, the event is detected on p2p-dev-wlan0, which is a P2P interface; probably it should be on wlan0 instead. How do you simulate the event? > But the channel is not switched. > > > I made some debugging in wpa_supplicant (v2.9) and figured out that the > function wpas_ap_event_dfs_radar_detected in ap.c instantly returned because > the wpa_s->ap_iface and the wpa_s->ifmsh is empty. > > > > Is the NetworkManager able to handle a fully working 5 GHz access point? Do I > just need to add some extra configurations? Yes, I think it should if you set property 'wifi.band' to 'a'. Beniamino ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Mac andom does not work with wl driver
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 01:32:59AM +0100, Bhasker C V via networkmanager-list wrote: > Hi, > > My wifi works (thanks for bwtnguy who pointed me to the issue) > However when I turn on > wifi.cloned-mac-address=stable > The NM does not connect to wifi anymore. > > My driver is wl. I use it with BCM4331 chip wifi card. > debian bullseye (NetworkManager==1.30.0 wpa_supplicant==v2.9) > Is this a known issue? Is there a fix for this ? Hi, this is a known issue, the Broadcom wl driver doesn't work well if the MAC is changed. Unfortunately the driver is closed and so only Broadcom can fix this problem. According to this [1] the 'b43' open source driver supports BCM4331. You could try if it works better. [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx Beniamino signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: AccessPoint 5GHz DFS Channel Radar Detection Failure
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 09:16:44AM +, Stärk Nadja wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working with NetworkManager v1.22.8 and face some issues with my 5 GHz > access point. > > I need to create it on DFS channel 100 and when a radar event is detected the > channel should be switched. > > Debug output of wpa_supplicant is enabled. > If I send a radar event through the debugfs to channel 100 now, I can see > that it was received by wpa_supplicant: > > nl80211: Event message available > > nl80211: Drv Event 94 (NL80211_CMD_RADAR_DETECT) received for p2p-dev-wlan0 > > nl80211: DFS event on freq 5500 MHz, ht: 1, offset: 0, width: 1, cf1: > 5500MHz, cf2: 0MHz > > p2p-dev-wlan0: Event DFS_RADAR_DETECTED (42) received Hi, the event is detected on p2p-dev-wlan0, which is a P2P interface; probably it should be on wlan0 instead. How do you simulate the event? > But the channel is not switched. > > > I made some debugging in wpa_supplicant (v2.9) and figured out that the > function wpas_ap_event_dfs_radar_detected in ap.c instantly returned because > the wpa_s->ap_iface and the wpa_s->ifmsh is empty. > > > > Is the NetworkManager able to handle a fully working 5 GHz access point? Do I > just need to add some extra configurations? Yes, I think it should if you set property 'wifi.band' to 'a'. Beniamino signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
