Hi Bjoern,
Thank you for your reply; I have sent you my dmesg.boot while booting
verbosely via email.
On 8/24/25 10:38, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, Nick Date wrote:
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?
I don't think so but, weirdly, when I connect with a USB wifi dongle
using the run0 driver, it also gives me 11g-type speeds.
These are the lines in my rc.conf related to networking:
hostname="[sanitised]"
wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA inet [sanitised] netmask 0xffffff00"
create_args_wlan0="country RO regdomain ETSI"
defaultrouter="[sanitised]"
Please let me know if I'm doing anything stupid! :)
Kind regards,
Nick
