Solved wifi getting hung up with FreeBSD 15.1

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ko56

I am running 15.1 on my Dell XPS laptop. When I am at home, wlan0
behaves fine. If I leave the laptop on and go to work, when I get there the wlan0
interface gets hung up and does not attach to the office wifi network.
I try to restart networking and that gets hung up too:

Code: 
service netif restart
Stopping wpa_supplicant.
Waiting for PIDs: 437
<indefinite wait>

Even trying to kill the process has no effect:
Code: 
sudo pkill -9 wpa_supplicant
The only thing that works is rebooting, not very satisfactory.

The above happens in reverse when I return home from the
office. wlan0 doesn't find the home network and I have to reboot again.

This home-to-office and back process worked perfectly fine with 15.0,
and I didn't touch the wifi configuration when upgrading from 15.0 to
15.1.

Is this a known issue?
 
Yes , also happened with my laptop runnnig AX201 , iwlwifi and 15.1 Relese
After random time WIFi card looses Carrier .
Somtime its possible to restart wifi card software but REBOOT otherwise.
Im planning to reinstall Laptop with 16- CUrrent.
 
drsnx60 said:
Yes , also happened with my laptop runnnig AX201 , iwlwifi and 15.1 Relese
After random time WIFi card looses Carrier .
Somtime its possible to restart wifi card software but REBOOT otherwise.
Im planning to reinstall Laptop with 16- CUrrent.
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Hmm, that seems drastic.
 
drsnx60 said:
It will be easier to report Bugs if issue exist on 16-current.
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Problem solved (for all practical purposes). It was caused by /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. I cleaned it up by removing everything except the code for the home network and the work network. Everything works fine now.
But I don't know what in this file was causing the problem.
 
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