On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:54:06PM +0100, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:38:05 -1000 > Joel Roth via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > The problem seemed to be with my wifi configuration. > > I'd been using the 2.4GHz radio. Perhaps the settings, > > based on Apple recommendations, weren't the best. > > > > In any case, by enabling the 5GHz radio with AC mode, > > WPA2-PSK and 80MHz signal width my BCM43228 associated with > > the router and received an IP address. > > > > Thanks for your attention! > > > Hallo Joel, > > may I ask, how you managed to set your Wifi-Adapter to 5GHz?
Hi Florian, What I meant to say is that I enabled the 5 GHz radio in my router and connected to its ESSID (distinct from the 2.4 GHz radio.) With wpa_supplicant, I don't use the -D option so can't comment on it. The iw dev|list|scan|info commands are very informative. Thanks. > After moving to a new place where I have to go wireless with my Desktop > (WTH?!), yesterday I ran into a similar issue, with wpa_supplicant > (both, with '-D wext' and with '-D nl80211') as well as with a pure > '/etc/network/interfaces' config) [1]: > > With both available USB-WiFi-Dongles (rtl8192cu and rt2800usb), I can > see the devices > > $ iw dev > $ iw list > resp. > $ iw phy0 info > > as well as the available networks > > $ iw wlan0 scan > > but dhclient times out, when querying the "Fritzbox": > > No DHCPOFFERS received. > No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. > > Installing NetworkManager via Android-AP and '/etc/network/interfaces', > as an "emergency workaround", solved the issue for now. Interestingly, > > $ iw dev > > tells me, that I am not connected with 5GHz, as I first had assumed, > but on > > channel 11 (2462 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2462 MHz > > Now I'd be curious to see, if with 5Ghz I can go back to my plain old > config - and how it compares to 2.4GHz in a wooden House. > > Thank you and libre Grüße, > Florian > > > BTW: I was very surprised to find chimaera's wicd depending on > networkmanager! wpa_gui and netaid are alternatives to wicd. cheers, joel > [1] https://cheatsheet.zwischenspeicher.info/2016/10/14-2017-02-05/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
