On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:06:49 -0700 Gregory Nowak via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:38:05AM -1000, Joel Roth via Dng wrote: > > 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. > > I'm not familiar with that particular chipset. However, based on the > above, that would suggest your network card presents the 5 GHz radio > on wlan0, and the 2.4 GHz radio on wlan1. > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:54:06PM +0100, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > > 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 > > I saw something similar on openwrt 21 on a gl.inet ar750 router. What > they did was to switch around the frequencies used by wlan0, and > wlan1. This was done by defining the band to use in the radio0 and > radio1 sections of /etc/config/wifi. How that actually does what it > does behind the scenes of UCI abstraction I wasn't able to figure out. Hi, it is done changing the settings of the hostapd daemon (in devuan in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf hw_mode=a/hw_mode=g) Ciao, Tito > The result of this was that I needed to rmmod the modules used by one > card, run wifi down, uncomment the band lines in each radio section, and run > wifi up with no networks enabled in order to scan for networks on a > particular band, and then I needed to run wifi down, > reverse changes in /etc/config/wifi, modprobe modules, and run wifi up to > connect to a > network. > > I wondered why they did this, until I discovered that using I believe the 5 > GHz > radio in the 5 GHz band caused both wifi radios to become > unresponsive. I needed to either reboot the router, or rmmod all wifi > modules, and modprobe them again to regain wifi functionality. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
