Re: TKIP support for LinuxKPI/iwlwifi in main

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Mark Phillips wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>       XB!
>>
>>       Hello everyone,
>>
>>       I cmmitted TKIP support for LinuxKPI to main (will MFC in a few 
>> days).
>>       The needed net80211 change went in as well (I think yesterday?).
>>
>>       If you want to try it you have to enable it in loader.conf setting:
>>               compat.linuxkpi.80211.tkip=1
>>
>>       Please report back how this goes!
>>
>>       Lots of joy,
>>       Bjoern
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for getting this out. Seems to be working fine for my Alder Lake 
>> iwlwifi.
>> 
>> That said, enabling TKIP did trigger some unexpected changes... unexpected, 
>> but not bad.
>
> Wow, I just tried this, and now I'm suddenly getting 220mbps! I wasn't 
> getting even close to that before :)

Are you actually using it?  You were on CCMP before already so there
should be no need for TKIP.  What does
 	ifconfig -v wlan0
say?  AES-CCM or TKIP?

Lots of health,
/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7