Hi there,
I've got a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3i (16", 8) with an AX203, running FreeBSD
14.3-RELEASE (latest patch), but unfortunately the iwlwifi driver is very
unstable on my machine. I raised the issue on the forums here -
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/iwlwifi-ax203-wifi-unstable-and-96-slower-vs-windows-11.96657/
- but as nobody was able to help, I was told my best bet was to post the
output of "ifconfig -v wlan0" on the freebsd-wireless list, and see if anyone
could help me troubleshoot.
Before I do that, I will explain the symptoms; on boot, FreeBSD connects to my
wireless network very quickly, and I get speeds between 4Mbps and 14Mbps (this
speed seems random). Sometimes the connection is very stable, and I can work
for hours without issue. Other times, it seems when the connection is
established at a lower speed, I work fine for a while but the connection seems
to grind to a halt intermittently. For example, I might be running a "pkg
upgrade" when all of the sudden the ETA goes up from seconds, to minutes before
pkg displays "stalled". When this happens I still appear to be connected, but I
cannot ping anything either by hostname or IP. Usually after a few minutes, the
connection returns. However, sometimes it does not return at all, and I have to
reboot.
I dual boot in Windows 11, and in that OS I have a very fast connection speed
which I have never had any problem with, so the issue points to FreeBSD. I have
tried reconfiguring my router to only use 5MHz but there is no change, nor does
the issue change if I create a hotspot on my phone and connect to that instead.
If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. Although I have been
using FreeBSD for around 25 years I am not a developer, so you may have to talk
me through anything that involves patching. :)
Here are the results of ifconfig -v wlan0:
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=0
ether [sanitised]
inet [sanitised] netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast [sanitised]
groups: wlan
ssid [sanitised] channel 4 (2427 MHz 11g) bssid [sanitised]
regdomain ETSI country RO anywhere -ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i -wps
-tsn privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
AES-CCM 2:128-bit
powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 30 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd
rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7
11a ucast NONE mgmt 6 Mb/s mcast 6 Mb/s maxretry 6
11b ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
11g ucast NONE mgmt 1 Mb/s mcast 1 Mb/s maxretry 6
scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
roam:11a rssi 7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
roam:11b rssi 7dBm rate 1 Mb/s
roam:11g rssi 7dBm rate 5 Mb/s
-pureg protmode CTS -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 64k
ampdudensity 4 -amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren -smps -rifs
-stbc -ldpc -uapsd -vht wme -burst -dwds roaming MANUAL bintval 100
AC_BE cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 3 txopLimit 0 -acm
AC_BK cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm ack
cwmin 4 cwmax 10 aifs 7 txopLimit 0 -acm
AC_VI cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm ack
cwmin 3 cwmax 4 aifs 2 txopLimit 94 -acm
AC_VO cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm ack
cwmin 2 cwmax 3 aifs 2 txopLimit 47 -acm
parent interface: iwlwifi0
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
status: associated
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
drivername: wlan0
Kind regards,
Nick
