Bug 229883 - Cannot select any wifi or input password in bsdconfig
Summary: Cannot select any wifi or input password in bsdconfig
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: wireless (show other bugs)
Version: 11.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: freebsd-wireless (Nobody)
URL:
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Reported: 2018-07-19 07:00 UTC by ykla
Modified: 2024-07-06 19:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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bsdconfig (760.20 KB, image/png)
2018-07-19 07:00 UTC, ykla
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The password was I wrote in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf not directly here. (856.38 KB, image/png)
2018-07-19 07:06 UTC, ykla
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Description ykla 2018-07-19 07:00:57 UTC
Created attachment 195273 [details]
bsdconfig

Hi! 
  I am using Intel 8270AC wireless on xiaomi notebook 12.5 with Intel 6y30 CPU. And I can only write my wifi information in file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. I cannot change wifi by command "bsdconfig". I click any wifi ssid will get no reply because of that I cannot input anything such my password. Please look at the photo.
Comment 1 ykla 2018-07-19 07:02:51 UTC
Sorry. It should be intel 8260AC, and I can't change it again.
Comment 2 ykla 2018-07-19 07:06:13 UTC
Created attachment 195274 [details]
The password was I wrote in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf not directly here.

I can't select anything except "EXIT".
Comment 3 Francis Little 2018-10-05 11:34:26 UTC
I've found the same issue.

Looking at the bsdconfig source, the WiFi section has several TODO's, it cannot join a network or edit an existing network, the code is not there, just a few "XXXDT Unfinished" comments.

I'm going to take a stab at writing it and see how I get on!
Comment 4 Graham Perrin 2024-07-05 21:41:49 UTC
See also: bug 280145

(In reply to Francis Little from comment #3)

ykla, maybe change (broaden) the summary line of your report? 

In my case – two different computers, one of which does not use Intel hardware for Wi-Fi, <https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/1258889867081941093/1258889867081941093> in FreeBSD Discord: 

>> Select an unmarked ([ ]) entry to join that network. 
> 
> Nothing happens.
Comment 5 ykla 2024-07-06 05:35:49 UTC
Intel wireless cannot select any wifi or input password in bsdconfig. But it works in bsdinstall.
Comment 6 Bjoern A. Zeeb freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2024-07-06 19:25:39 UTC
While the reports are about Intel, is this problem actually Intel specific as I doubt that?

I can edit (and select) networks which are already in wpa_supplicant.conf but I cannot select new networks and add/edit them.

It seems a general /usr/share/bsdconfig/media/wlan.subr problem.