Boot hangs on 12.1-RELEASE-p9

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dvogit

This just started, even after multiple reboots yesterday. Anyway, I turn on the system, and when it gets to this point:
Code: 
Starting wpa_supplicant
, it stops. Because I’m on a T420, I should have been seeing the network light on, but it did not flash. I went to single user mode to find the problem, but everything looked fine before rc.conf started running. I went back to single user, checked the system, but it still looks normal.
 
dvogit said:
This just started, even after multiple reboots yesterday. Anyway, I turn on the system, and when it gets to this point:
Code: 
Starting wpa_supplicant
, it stops. Because I’m on a T420, I should have been seeing the network light on, but it did not flash. I went to single user mode to find the problem, but everything looked fine before rc.conf started running. I went back to single user, checked the system, but it still looks normal.
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Disable wpa_supplicant from auto start at startup and diagnose the problem later when you have your system booted.
 
I had a country=DE in my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf(5), but wpa_supplicant(8) does not know about that, so I commented it out. There's a newer version in the ports tree or packages, resp., so that might be left over from me copying the config of that one from /usr/local/etc to the root. Beware such pitfalls if you use the ports version.
 
I am using the stock version of wpa_supplicant, and all the settings look ok. It does make the interfaces, but doesn’t resolve, and looks like it does not allow an internet connection to establish. I rolled back updates to p8, but it still did not work. It does recognize the device (as PCI0:3:0:0), so I don’t know what’s wrong.
 
Sorry I forgot to ask for pciconf -vl | grep -B3 network, too.
EDIT Have to leave now, but the next ones will need that info & hopefully can help to solve your issue.
 
1. Cannot disable if never started.
2. I cannot update without network.
3. /etc/rc.conf:
Code: 
wlans_iwn0=“wlan0”
ifconfig_wlan0=“WPA DHCP”
ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6=“inet6 accept_rtadv”
create_args_wlan0=“country US regdomain FCC”
4: pciconf: (note: I have no Ethernet access)
Code: 
em0@pci0:0:25:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x21ce17aa chip=0x15028086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
    vendor    = ‘Intel Corporation’
    device    = ‘82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville)’
    class     = network
—
iwn0@pci0:0:3:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x13118086 chip=0x00858086 rev=0x34 hdr=0x00
    vendor    = ‘Intel Corporation’
    device    = ‘Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]’
    class     = network
 
  • Did the WLAN work under FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE before you updated to -p9?
  • Your WLAN chip Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 is not listed as supported by iwn(4). It might work via the N-6200 firmware, or it might not... Please kldstat -v | grep iwn to make shure if_iwm.ko & the appropiate firmware module are loaded.
  • Use e.g. wlandebug -i wlan0 +debug +scan. The debug output goes directly to the console, and through syslog(8) (from kernel) to /var/log/messages (unless you changed that).
 
I have Thinkpads using WiFi on Intel Centrino chips. For the /etc/rc.conf:
Code: 
ifconfig_wlan0="-ht WPA SYNCDHCP"
Also, as mjollnir suggests having N-6200 firmware might work, or not.
(I load these in /boot/loader.conf just to be sure.)

EDIT: The line suggested above replaces the /etc/rc.conf
Code: 
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
 
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