FreeBSD current RT3071 can't connect to 5G network

Patrick Powell papowell at astart.com
Fri Aug 15 13:30:45 UTC 2014


Is it possible to provide a SHORT list of a COUPLE that do,  and are 
either supported
out of the box or with a few simple mods to the driver (patch?). And 
perhaps a link to
a site where they might be purchased?

On 08/14/14 20:06, Kevin Lo wrote:
> 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*
>> *E-mail:    *miguelmclara at gmail.com
>>           www.linkedin.com/in/miguelmclara/
>>
>>
>> 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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