Re: brcmfmac disconnects when iwd scans

On June 12, 2025 3:51:34 PM KeithG <[email protected]> wrote:

> Arend,
>
> I am still seeing this:
> wpa_supplicant[431]: wlan0: Failed to initiate sched scan
>
> I tried the brcmfmac options listed above and got no change? Still
> getting this every 6 seconds in the log.
> Did I get the command in the modprobe conf wrong?

Maybe. You could try to merge the two value so one line with 0x200002. 
Could be that wpa_supplicant determines support for scheduled scan in an 
unexpected way. Have not looked at the wpa_supplicant code for that.

Regards,
Arend

>
> On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM KeithG <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> With this setup, things work really well and the only strange thing I
>>>> am getting is a 'failed scheduled scan' message in the log every ~6
>>>> sec.
>>>>
>>>> May 09 08:53:50 pi4 wpa_supplicant[2254218]: wlan0: Failed to initiate
>>>> sched scan
>>>> May 09 08:53:57 pi4 wpa_supplicant[2254218]: wlan0: Failed to initiate
>>>> sched scan
>>>> May 09 08:54:03 pi4 wpa_supplicant[2254218]: wlan0: Failed to initiate
>>>> sched scan
>>>> May 09 08:54:09 pi4 wpa_supplicant[2254218]: wlan0: Failed to initiate
>>>> sched scan
>>>> May 09 08:54:16 pi4 wpa_supplicant[2254218]: wlan0: Failed to initiate
>>>> sched scan
>>>> May 09 08:54:22 pi4 wpa_supplicant[2254218]: wlan0: Failed to initiate
>>>> sched scan
>>>
>>> I thought wpa_supplicant had a config option to disable scheduled scan, but
>>> can not find it. You can disable it in brcmfmac using feature_disable=2
>>> modparam.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Arend
>> Arend,
>>
>> Thanks. I must be doing something wrong as I still get the 'Failed to
>> initiate scan' spammed in the log with this config:
>>
>> # cat /etc/modprobe.d/brcmfmac.conf
>> options brcmfmac feature_disable=0x200000
>> options brcmfmac feature_disable=2
>>
>> Do I have it formatted wrong?
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> I think you suggested the the first line due to a different log
>> spamming message.