Re: A bit more on Bookworm and WiFi problens

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 11/11/2024 22:20, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Apologies for the mix-up. I meant to report that the behaviour of
the internal Wi-Fi seems to be affected by both use of wired Ethernet
and use of USB Wi-Fi. The internal Wi-Fi connected spontaneously after
connecting either a wired Ethernet cable or a USB-wifi dongle. Alas,
that behaviour is not repeatable.

 
 
I am still fighting a similar issue in that one of my pis will not sort
its dns out until its been sorted out so to speak.
 
The common factor is a service that wont work until connectivity that it
should provide itself is already established.
 
I wonder if the wifi software needs access to something before it will
wake up.

I see something about "NetworkManager-wait-online..." failing to start
during boot up. It doesn't fail consistently, and I don't see any obvious
difference in system behavior either way.


After idling overnight dmesg reports a flood of
[76285.418728] brcmfmac: brcmf_set_channel: set chanspec 0xd022 fail, reason -52
[76285.526747] brcmfmac: brcmf_set_channel: set chanspec 0xd026 fail, reason -52
[76285.630745] brcmfmac: brcmf_set_channel: set chanspec 0xd02a fail, reason -52
[76285.734787] brcmfmac: brcmf_set_channel: set chanspec 0xd02e fail, reason -52
as if something's stuck in a loop.

Wifi by way of the usb-wifi dongle is up, wavemon reports
freq: 2417 MHz [survey freq: 2462 MHz], channel: 2 (width: 20 MHz (no HT))
for the connected interface.

The internal interface reports 87% signal strength from the configured
access point but the search has apparently stopped at 5825 MHz channel
165 which can't work since it's a 2.4 GHz access point.

The network drop-down menu sees my access point through both interfaces
but won't let me try to connect the internal without turning wifi off and
back on (can't test further because I'm typing this over the wifi link).

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska