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Re: rtw88: Guaranteed system freeze with RTL8821CE with RFE 2 type

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On Thursday, May 20, 2021 8:51 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/19/21 4:00 PM, rtl8821cerfe2 wrote:
>
> > On Monday, May 10, 2021 4:49 PM, rtl8821cerfe2 rtl8821cerfe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Monday, May 10, 2021 3:06 PM, rtl8821cerfe2 rtl8821cerfe2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Monday, May 10, 2021 4:16 AM, Larry Finger Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The only splat that shows in either attachment is due to you not installing the
> > > > > regulatory database that sets the channels etc. for your domain. I do not know
> > > > > what it is called for your distro - it is wireless-regdb on mine. It is unlikely
> > > > > that this is the cause of your problem, but who knows?
> > > > > Larry
> > > >
> > > > I installed the wireless-regdb package. The error message about
> > > > regulatory.db went away, but the system still froze.
> > > > I'll try the rtw_core parameter disable_lps_deep=1 now.
> > >
> > > disable_lps_deep=1 did not help.
> > The patch set called "rtw88: add scan notify to firmware and refine fw_feature check" may have fixed this problem. I've been running commit 6ccdad5a58e18eac6b1335f05f94bf2b36146e00 from lwfinger/rtw88 for 3 days now with no freeze. It was impossible to go more than a few hours without a freeze before these patches.
>
> Sounds good. I will keep porting the patches submitted to wreless-drivers-next
> to the rtw88 repo at GitHub. I have no idea why this would preclude a system
> freeze, but the Realtek guys might.
>
> Larry

I spoke too soon. It does still freeze even with that patch set.




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