Re: Intel Alder Lake iwlwifi update

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:50:47 UTC
On Thu, 19 Jun 2025, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>>  Try adding "chanlist 36-165" to the ifconfig create command to limit the
>> channels it'll consider. See if that helps!
>>
>> -adrian
>>
>
> That failed, but I then tried taking a sledge hammer to it and commented
> out the entry for the 2.4G network from wpa_supplicant.conf and that
> worked! Unfortunately, performance is still terrible.  Using speedtest.org,
> I get only 30M down and 41 up. My  phone, on the same SSID, gets 416M down
> and 41 up. No idea why my download speed is so bad. Clearly, this is not
> ideal as I can't connect from most of my back yard.
>
> Here is the ifconfig:

What does

sysctl compat.linuxkpi.80211.wlan0

say when you are asociated and while you are running the speedtest.
That'll give you (and us) ideas what the card firmware and the AP think.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7