Re: AX210 testing, problems connecting 11ac

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025, Peter Miller wrote:

> On Mon Apr 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM CDT, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025, Peter Miller wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>>> I saw the call for wifi testing [1], and tested. I thought I was one of the
>>> people not connecting to 11ac. Then I forced 11ac in /etc/rc.conf and was
>>> able to connect with 11ac, but, I have to restart networking to get it
>>> working; sometimes multiple restarts.
>>
>> Sometimes some repeated
>>  	ifconfig wlan0 scan
>> as super user will also do it (you'll notice when it doesn't return
>> immediately).  Might be less destructive than restarting networking.
>
> It did hang, but it didn't connect to 11ac. I ended up doing the restart
> method again.

What was the scan result?  Were the networks on 11a included at that
moment?

You could add multiple entries to wpa_supplicant.conf with bssid also set
and order them by priority.  Shot in the dark.

>>> My wifi is provided by a linksys velop whw03 [2] which has 2.4 and
>>> 5ghz enabled.
>>>
>>> To use 11ac I have the following line in /etc/rc.conf
>>> ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11ac WPA DHCP"
>>>
>>> Once 11ac connects, I was able to get 300+ mbits using ookla-speedtest and
>>> iperf3 locally.
>>>
>>> All the info below is before I forced/added 11ac to rc.conf
>>
>> Your scan reuslt only shows the 2.4Ghz SSID if that was all.  That's
>> likely the issue.
>>
>> Can you at some point also post the sysctl output and the scan result
>> when you are connected to 11a[c]?   Would be interesting to know.
>>
>
> Here it is on 11ac.
> Note: I switched to pkgbase today, so it's a slightly different kernel.

The sysctl only has beacon strength which looks okay and it is some list
of scan results but I cannot see why it would not have the 11a networks
in the scan results if not forced to 11a.

Can you try a bit more without setting it to 11ac and then check
wlanstat output or enable wlandebug wlan0 +scan if anything becomes
noticable.

Then the next question is:  if your 11a network(s) show up in the scan
results will they be picked automatically, which was unclear above.

Lots of health,
/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7