Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Adam Vande More 
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Victor Sudakov  wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm looking for an internal Wi-Fi NIC with support for
>
> 1. 802.11n or better 802.11ac
> 2. HOSTAP mode
> 3. 5 GHz band (better both 2GHz and 5GHz).
>
> for an AP running FreeBSD.
>
> A USB NIC would do too, but a PCI-E is preferable.
>
> Could you please advise a good one?
>
> I've been told that I have a rather narrow choice between ath(4),
> mwl(4) and ral(4) NICs. Is that correct?
>
>
I have a later model ath and it works well for 2 and 5 Ghz.  My iwm which
supposedly supports 5 GHz doesn't work there but is okay at 2.

I have no experience with HOSTAP mode.

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[Bug 220078] [patch] [panic] [ipfw] repeatable kernel panic due to unlocked INADDR_TO_IFP usage

2018-02-05 Thread bugzilla-noreply 
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[Bug 220078] [patch] [panic] [ipfw] repeatable kernel panic due to unlocked INADDR_TO_IFP usage

2018-02-05 Thread bugzilla-noreply 
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--- Comment #23 from Eugene Grosbein  ---
*** Bug 222617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[Bug 220078] [patch] [panic] [ipfw] repeatable kernel panic due to unlocked INADDR_TO_IFP usage

2018-02-05 Thread bugzilla-noreply 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220078

Eugene Grosbein  changed:

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[Bug 220078] [patch] [panic] repeatable kernel panic due to unlocked INADDR_TO_IFP usage

2018-02-05 Thread bugzilla-noreply 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220078

Eugene Grosbein  changed:

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Summary|[patch] [panic] [ipfw]  |[patch] [panic] repeatable
   |repeatable kernel panic due |kernel panic due to
   |to unlocked INADDR_TO_IFP   |unlocked INADDR_TO_IFP
   |usage   |usage

--- Comment #24 from Eugene Grosbein  ---
Also https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12457

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Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Kevin Oberman 
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Adam Vande More 
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Victor Sudakov 
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > I'm looking for an internal Wi-Fi NIC with support for
> >
> > 1. 802.11n or better 802.11ac
> > 2. HOSTAP mode
> > 3. 5 GHz band (better both 2GHz and 5GHz).
> >
> > for an AP running FreeBSD.
> >
> > A USB NIC would do too, but a PCI-E is preferable.
> >
> > Could you please advise a good one?
> >
> > I've been told that I have a rather narrow choice between ath(4),
> > mwl(4) and ral(4) NICs. Is that correct?
> >
> >
> I have a later model ath and it works well for 2 and 5 Ghz.  My iwm which
> supposedly supports 5 GHz doesn't work there but is okay at 2.
>
> I have no experience with HOSTAP mode.
>
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My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn)  card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at least
it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a few years.

Does FreeBSD even have 11AC implemented?

I DO NOT recommend it, though, except as a last resort as it has a number
of issues and has consistently regressed since FreeBSD 10. It has a really
bad time getting along with the wpa_supplicant in 11. It can take many
minutes to sync up on re-boot. It also goes "DOWN" very briefly a few times
a day, but it comes back up very quickly from these, so I may have a
hardware issue on my almost 7 year-old ThinkPad T520.
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Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Eugene Grosbein 
06.02.2018 1:37, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn)  card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at least
> it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a few years.

iwn(4) does not use IEEE80211_C_HOSTAP anywhere in its .c code in stable/11,
so it seems not to claim HOSTAP support.

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Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Victor Sudakov 
Adam Vande More wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for an internal Wi-Fi NIC with support for
> >
> > 1. 802.11n or better 802.11ac
> > 2. HOSTAP mode
> > 3. 5 GHz band (better both 2GHz and 5GHz).
> >
> > for an AP running FreeBSD.
> >
> > A USB NIC would do too, but a PCI-E is preferable.
> >
> > Could you please advise a good one?
> >
> > I've been told that I have a rather narrow choice between ath(4),
> > mwl(4) and ral(4) NICs. Is that correct?
> >
> >
> I have a later model ath and it works well for 2 and 5 Ghz.  

Dear Adam,

Can you please tell the exact model of your ath card, and also post
the output of "ifconfig ... list caps" about this card to see if it
supports HOSTAP mode?

> My iwm which
> supposedly supports 5 GHz doesn't work there but is okay at 2.

Same about your iwm. Thank you in advance.
> 
> I have no experience with HOSTAP mode.

Running "ifconfig ... list caps" may show HOSTAP support.

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Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Victor Sudakov 
Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 06.02.2018 1:37, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> > My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn)  card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at least
> > it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a few years.
> 
> iwn(4) does not use IEEE80211_C_HOSTAP anywhere in its .c code in stable/11,
> so it seems not to claim HOSTAP support.

Kevin, what does "ifconfig ... list caps" say about your card? Does it
report "HOSTAP" mode, or just post the drivercaps string please.


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Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Kevin Oberman 
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Victor Sudakov  wrote:

> Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> > 06.02.2018 1:37, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
> > > My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn)  card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at
> least
> > > it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a few years.
> >
> > iwn(4) does not use IEEE80211_C_HOSTAP anywhere in its .c code in
> stable/11,
> > so it seems not to claim HOSTAP support.
>
> Kevin, what does "ifconfig ... list caps" say about your card? Does it
> report "HOSTAP" mode, or just post the drivercaps string please.
>
>
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> AS43859
>

Eugene was correct. My error. It does not provide HOSTAP.

Sorry for the false lead.
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Re: Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

2018-02-05 Thread Peter Blok 
Hi,

I have been using a TP-Link TL-WDN4800.

It has hostap support, because that’s how I used it. Had lots of stuck beacon 
messages, but it kept doing its job.

Peter

> On 6 Feb 2018, at 07:04, Kevin Oberman  wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Victor Sudakov  > wrote:
> 
>> Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>> 06.02.2018 1:37, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> 
 My ancient Intel Centrino (iwn)  card does 11n, HOSTAP and 5G. Or, at
>> least
 it did as I have not tried HOSTAP for a few years.
>>> 
>>> iwn(4) does not use IEEE80211_C_HOSTAP anywhere in its .c code in
>> stable/11,
>>> so it seems not to claim HOSTAP support.
>> 
>> Kevin, what does "ifconfig ... list caps" say about your card? Does it
>> report "HOSTAP" mode, or just post the drivercaps string please.
>> 
>> 
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>> AS43859
>> 
> 
> Eugene was correct. My error. It does not provide HOSTAP.
> 
> Sorry for the false lead.
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