Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:04:56 -0500 From: Pietro Sammarco <pietro.sammarco@googlemail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No IEEE80211N in HOSTAPD 11-Release Message-ID: <a17906f6-5427-f1a1-1cba-319ee5c1c0a5@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmok1MF2bodCYjOqx5bo=P2D%2B9OKtbW7O5RkGgJHFePp4JA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPwTk-V1YVhhX8ixipQjVq0Cz3az3PjHimk1XHVYes2Bj8RuzA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPwTk-WVYyQj9iy0%2Br=s74Ov_13V%2BV=h-_T5Kibwz0K1w7xvEA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPwTk-VhL4sdODZjQqF-ROHJt3YQ3H590Y2t7cYdc-mB2Bz_6A@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmok1MF2bodCYjOqx5bo=P2D%2B9OKtbW7O5RkGgJHFePp4JA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey Adrian. Thank you so much for clarifying this. It honestly felt way to strange that FreeBSD didn't support HOSTAPD 802.11n. Best Regards, Pietro Sammarco On 05/29/2017 01:38 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > hi, > > the TL;DR is - we do support 11n, it's just done in net80211. So no, > you don't need to tell hostapd anything special about it for now. > > > -a > > On 28 May 2017 at 23:11, Pietro Sammarco via freebsd-wireless > <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Hello folks. I recently bought a APU2C4 for the solely purpose to have it >> as a all in one FreeBSD router, firewall, HOSTAPD. >> >> It has got two mini PCIe Compex WLE200NX, which uses the Atheros AR9280 >> chipset. >> >> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe400000-0xfe40ffff at device 0.0 on pci1 >> ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes >> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled >> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled >> ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams >> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 >> ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0 >> >> However though, I am running into a sort of nightmare with getting 802.11n >> to work with hostapd. >> >> Line 6: unknown configuration item 'ieee80211n' >> >> I could be totally wrong, but from what I understood IEEE80211N is disabled >> both from the hostapd binary included with system base(I am on FreeBSD >> 11-relese p9), as well as from the one in ports/pkg. >> >> Does this mean that I won't be getting no 802.11n love? >> >> If so, is there any reason of why 802.11n has been disabled from hostapd? >> >> If this turns out to be true, I honestly don't know whether is worth to >> venture compiling hostapd from source or rather going with pfsense, since >> they got it patched some 3 years ago. >> >> I appreciate your help. >> >> Thanks, >> Pietro >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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