FreeBSD current RT3071 can't connect to 5G network

Kevin Lo kevlo at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 15 03:07:01 UTC 2014


All USB wifi dongles in FreeBSD don't support 11n yet.

	Kevin

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 03:09:23PM +0100, Miguel Clara wrote:
> 
> Duh, I figured it out... by default the Asus Guest netwroks are created in
> "auto" mode, so both N and legacy, while my 5G network was set to N only
> (2.4 is set to auto too).
> 
> This also explain the poor performance now... for some reason 11n is not
> working only 11g/a.
> 
> ifconfig wlan0 mode 11na or 11ng gives me device is not configured (This
> works fine for the ath card tough)!
> 
> 
> Melhores Cumprimentos // Best Regards
> -----------------------------------------------
> *Miguel Clara*
> *IT - Sys Admin & Developer*
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> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, just wanted to report that the patch made no difference.
> >>
> >> However I created a guest network in my router with the same password and
> >> also using WPA2, and it connects to it.
> >>
> >> the only difference is the BSSID, so I wonder if this is a issue with wpa
> >> and nothing to to with the driver?
> >>
> >
> > NOTE: it works well if using ath driivers so the problem is probably in
> > the driver indeed!
> >
> >
> >> But the performance is still horrible!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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