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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:57:18 -0700
From:      Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260
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It used to work pretty well, but HEAD regressed heavily.  My card crashes
8260 non-stop.

I'm trying to resync everything to DFBSD, I will post a review if
successful.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a laptop with an Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260 card (
> iwm0@pci0:4:0:0:
>        class=0x028000 card=0x11308086 chip=0x24f38086 rev=0x3a hdr=0x00 )
> in my thinkpad x1 yoga.
>
> I'm running 12-CURRENT, and wireless is sort of working, although very
> slowly: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11a where I would
> expect more. My old trusted access point is a wndr3700 which supports 11n (
> worked fine with my macbook, regularly got 20Mb/s.
>
> I bought a new access point to get that 11ac goodness, but I can barley get
> my new laptop to find the anything on the 5GHz band.
>
> So my questions:
> -Does FreeBSD actually support 11ac yet?
> -Shouldn't my ac8260 support 11n as well?
> -Should I get different scan results depending on if have my old or new ap
> connected?
> -How come my t510 thinkpad (different os btw) can see my 5GHz net on my new
> ap but my yoga does not?
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
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