enabling HT mode on ath 938x and WPA question

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 22 17:45:25 UTC 2014


Hi,

I'm confused. It should just default to 11n.

Are you actually setting a channel when you create the VAP, or are you
leaving it blank so it picks a channel?



-a


On 22 August 2014 08:40, Peter Lai <cowbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the correct way to invoke HT (ng) mode on 938x cards? I have a
> TP LINK WDN4800, and it seems to require 2 invocations of ifconfig
> mode 11g to put it into ng mode. The first invocation sets it to 11g
> then the second one turns on 11ng/HT40+ (according to the output of
> ifconfig). It seems that when the card is first initialized/booted it
> randomly picks a band.
>
> Is there a way in rc.conf to specify this behavior?
>
> Also, when I am using hostapd, my wireless clients see the BSSID as
> WPA-enabled whereas yonder generic routers (linksys, 2wire, etc.) show
> up as WPA/WPA2 (but I only tested this with Android clients).
>
> My hostapd.conf:
> interface=wlan0
> debug=2
> #doesn't seem to do anything, how do I turn on logging to /var/log/messages
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
> ssid=myssid
> wpa=1
> wpa_passphrase=mysekret
> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> wpa_pairwise=CCMP
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