Re: HT and VHT testing for modern iwlwifi chipsets (notes about others)

From: Eirik_Øverby <ltning-freebsd-wireless_at_anduin.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:57:45 UTC 
On 02.03.2025 02:31, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025, Eirik Øverby wrote:
> 
>> Attached a dmesg (ac_n.log) which contains a number of 'service netif 
>> restart' and such. Order of events are roughly:
>> - boot with ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11a WPA DHCP"
>>  (Worked fine but speed increase was not quite what I expected, until 
>> I remembered the '11a' part)
> 
> Hmm even with that I end up in 11ac;  how old was your wpa_supplicant?

Not using the port; I upgraded both kernel and userland, so it's the 
same version: main-7ee310c80ea7

I don't have the output from ifconfig - I manage to overwrite it :(

/Eirik

> I wonder if you have updated it
> - main a0e45db6f6eb6660e78921bbd5307fa7fc13d0a9
> - stable/14 8552e8de6d7e980403c2247f9c2b802211b4b894
> - or are you using the ports version (which I should check if it has that
>    change -- likely not)?
> 
>> - attempt to service netif restart after removing the '11a' part
>> - this caused loads of failures, and I could not get the link up after 
>> that
> 
>