Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260

[Adrian Chadd]

Yeah I know :( I'm still trying to find spare cycles to keep moving
the driver forward to the latest dfbsd code.

At least we know which commit broke it..


-a


On 20 February 2017 at 15:57, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com> wrote:
> It used to work pretty well, but HEAD regressed heavily.  My card crashes
> 8260 non-stop.
>
> I'm trying to resync everything to DFBSD, I will post a review if
> successful.
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a laptop with an Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260 card (
>> iwm0 at pci0:4:0:0:
>>        class=0x028000 card=0x11308086 chip=0x24f38086 rev=0x3a hdr=0x00 )
>> in my thinkpad x1 yoga.
>>
>> I'm running 12-CURRENT, and wireless is sort of working, although very
>> slowly: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11a where I would
>> expect more. My old trusted access point is a wndr3700 which supports 11n (
>> worked fine with my macbook, regularly got 20Mb/s.
>>
>> I bought a new access point to get that 11ac goodness, but I can barley get
>> my new laptop to find the anything on the 5GHz band.
>>
>> So my questions:
>> -Does FreeBSD actually support 11ac yet?
>> -Shouldn't my ac8260 support 11n as well?
>> -Should I get different scan results depending on if have my old or new ap
>> connected?
>> -How come my t510 thinkpad (different os btw) can see my 5GHz net on my new
>> ap but my yoga does not?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Andreas
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