On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, Nick Date wrote:
Hi Nick,
can you do a boot -v (bootverbose) from loader and them email the
/var/run/dmesg.boot file to me (bz@)? I'd love to see all details I can
get for that Adapter.
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.
You are currently stuck on 11g which seems stange. I'd expect at least
11ng. You do not by any chance have anything set in rc.conf for wifi
creation that would liimt you to 11g?
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
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Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
