Re: iwlwifi / rtw88 / rtw89 hw crypto request for test (precon for HT/VHT)

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

Hi,

> Then I set compat.linuxkpi.80211.hw_crypto=1.
> First strange thing: "ifconfig wlan0" output doesn't differ; it' still says 
> "54Mbps" and "11g".
> WiFi doesn't seem to work properly, as I cannot even ssh into the machine 
> (hangs after some startup messages).

Okay, we should try to figure out why that is.

> Also I started seeing a lot of messages that invite me to report to PR 
> 274382.

That is likely because you don't get a stable association and net80211
swaps the node and tries to send the first packet.

> I'll eventually try in other networks, if I can.

If you can compile yourself, can you (in 14.2 / stable/14 still in
/usr/src (or wherever your source tree is) and then tools/tools/net80211/wlanstats/
Type make and make install and make sure your shell finds the newly
innstalled program.

wlanstats [-i wlan0] might tell you things and we can start seeing
what's wrong maybe.


> Fine, this was just a test for fun.
> Either I did something wrong or it just can't work on 14.2.

Or it should but doesn't and we need to fix that.


> Now, the real question: are you interested in such reports in 274382?
> Given the "unofficial" (to say the least) state of my kernel, I'm not sure.

I am about to remove the "reposrt to PR..." bit from the kernels;  I
have more than plenty reports still and now that some queue got flushed
I an can spend a day or two trying to address some of the PRs to sort
these out (the BT COex one as well hopefully).

> pciconf -lv:
> iwlwifi0@pci0:0:12:0:   class=0x028000 rev=0x06 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 
> device=0x31dc subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0264
> iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9461
> iwlwifi0: successfully loaded firmware image 'iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode'
> iwlwifi0: loaded firmware version 46.ff18e32a.0 9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode > op_mode iwlmvm
> iwlwifi0: base HW address: ------------------ OTP minor version: 0x4

That is very valuble information as well.  I still don't have a 9xxx to
test with.  I should get one.

Thanks a lot for going the full way of trying with all the extra
cherry-picks.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7