On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:37 PM <jbo@insane.engineer> wrote:
Hello Kevin,
According to the corresponding man page iwlwifi currently only supports
802.11a/b/g. Personally I've only seen 802.11a working on my AX201.
Support for ac is supposed to follow soon. Support for ax is definitely
also planned but will probably not happen anytime soon.
Alternatively, you can always spawn a small bhyve VM, run a suitable Linux
distro in there, pass through the card and have the VM act as a gateway.
There's even an out-of-the-box solution available: net/wifibox
Best regards,
~ Joel
Yes, only a/b/g are supported, but 11a is the sort of first update to the
original 802.11 to enable OFDM and is limited to the 5GHz. Since the card
supports 2.4, as well, it seems that 11g is appropriate. It's odd that it
shows 11a. I have yet to see a true 11a device as it was 5 GHz only and
did not work on less expensive 2.4 GHz radios.
First of all, I know everyone (aprt from 8xxx/9xxx users who wants
things to work again) now wants speed and suspend/resume. Thing will
comes, patience please.
If you have a single-SSID for both 2.4 and 5 I think you can add two
entries in wpa_supplicant.conf with different frequencies and use
priority for them appropriately if you prefer 11g to 11a.
Alternatively and probably better than frequency is to use the bssid=
often just differening by the last bit.
I used to use something like this for testing:
network={
ssid="abcdef0123"
bssid=01:02:03:04:05:06
proto=WPA2
psk="abcdefghijk98765"
priority=50
}
network={
ssid="abcdef0123"
bssid=01:02:03:04:05:07
proto=WPA2
psk="abcdefghijk98765"
priority=40
}
I know the man page for wpa_supplicant.conf is a bit sparse and
/usr/share/examples/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is a bit tidious to go
through as wifi is complicated these days ...
Hope it helps,
Bjoern
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