Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 13:55:45 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: jbo@insane.engineer, FreeBSD Wireless <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: AX200 running 11a???? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2204071347060.68830@ai.fobar.qr> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1s%2BubY30U6JMt%2B44_kGLrX-yCrr2Fa2W4k374xR_zoBdQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1sH7rpvJSE1BX_dKwCV7e=QasLvmVSGoP9FXNc9NJ%2BMfQ@mail.gmail.com> <tWOjdnBmCE5FwRDbBWevGyigAiqjFhf_FOiBqKW656rFt0Ke997M_9xYl-U4l0YyHfkHLWhqTk5ScIR95NQM5L8MmgYwUElfQ5f17fxGmdA=@insane.engineer> <CAN6yY1s%2BubY30U6JMt%2B44_kGLrX-yCrr2Fa2W4k374xR_zoBdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:37 PM <jbo@insane.engineer> wrote:
>
>> Hello Kevin,
>>
>> According to the corresponding man page iwlwifi currently only supports
>> 802.11a/b/g. Personally I've only seen 802.11a working on my AX201.
>>
>> Support for ac is supposed to follow soon. Support for ax is definitely
>> also planned but will probably not happen anytime soon.
>>
>> Alternatively, you can always spawn a small bhyve VM, run a suitable Linux
>> distro in there, pass through the card and have the VM act as a gateway.
>> There's even an out-of-the-box solution available: net/wifibox
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> ~ Joel
>>
>
> Yes, only a/b/g are supported, but 11a is the sort of first update to the
> original 802.11 to enable OFDM and is limited to the 5GHz. Since the card
> supports 2.4, as well, it seems that 11g is appropriate. It's odd that it
> shows 11a. I have yet to see a true 11a device as it was 5 GHz only and
> did not work on less expensive 2.4 GHz radios.
First of all, I know everyone (aprt from 8xxx/9xxx users who wants
things to work again) now wants speed and suspend/resume. Thing will
comes, patience please.
If you have a single-SSID for both 2.4 and 5 I think you can add two
entries in wpa_supplicant.conf with different frequencies and use
priority for them appropriately if you prefer 11g to 11a.
Alternatively and probably better than frequency is to use the bssid=
often just differening by the last bit.
I used to use something like this for testing:
network={
ssid="abcdef0123"
bssid=01:02:03:04:05:06
proto=WPA2
psk="abcdefghijk98765"
priority=50
}
network={
ssid="abcdef0123"
bssid=01:02:03:04:05:07
proto=WPA2
psk="abcdefghijk98765"
priority=40
}
I know the man page for wpa_supplicant.conf is a bit sparse and
/usr/share/examples/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is a bit tidious to go
through as wifi is complicated these days ...
Hope it helps,
Bjoern
--
Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
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