in reply to Björns questions,
On 4/14/25 21:36, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2025, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
Hi,
first of all thank you for testing and reporting back!
Today 14:th of April at 18:00 UTC. I installed new iwlwifi
firmware from ports and refreshed /usr/src tree from Git,
and rebuildt the kernel
Which branch? main or stable/14?
15-current main
I also reconfigured my old 4G/Wifi Modem-gateway to
B/G/N 2.4 Gbit band, 40 Mhz
looks like Im now running 11ng 300 Mbits to the 4G/WIFI
modem.
4G speed is ofcourse lower
Where do you get the 300Mbit/s from? Just the theoretical value?
Listed as the 11ng speed in the dmesg verbose list below,
Wlan0 now says :
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
mtu 1500
options=0
ether f4:7b:09:b0:ba:3f
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
groups: wlan
ssid xxxxxx channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g ht/40+) bssid 50:9f:27:79:c2:a3
Blessed are you. Your radio environment must be very quiet that you
manage to get on a 40Mhz channel on 11g (or the AP is set to force now?)!
Im in a single family home / detecting three other AP's in
neigbour houses
the 4G/modem is on the same desk as the laptop.
regdomain ETSI country SE authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60
You are using TKIP which is not yet supported for crypto offload so
either you
do not have hw_crypto enabled (which the newer firmware would) as well
or you
are not getting reasonable throughtput as ampdurx would be automatically
disabled by LinuxKPI and it looks like from the next line of the
ifconfig output that it got (both RX and TX as it syas -ampdu; TX is
disabled
on purpose in the current version).
Do you have any chance to enable/switch to CCMP on the AP?
Its not a setting I recognize from the menus in the thing,
What does:
sysctl compat.linuxkpi.80211.hw_crypto
compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_11n_disable compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_disable_11ac
show for all three?
compat.linuxkpi.80211.hw_crypto: 0
compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_11n_disable: 0
compat.linuxkpi.iwlwifi_disable_11ac: 1
And once you are associated and have some traffic, what does
sysctl compat.linuxkpi.80211.wlan0
say?
# sysctl sysctl compat.linuxkpi.80211.wlan0
compat.linuxkpi.80211.wlan0.dump_stas:
lsta 0xfffff8005bb37000 sta 0xfffff8005bb371c0 added_to_drv 1
nl80211_sta_info (valid fields)
0x00004503<BEACON_RX,BEACON_SIGNAL_AVG,SIGNAL_AVG,RX_BITRATE,TX_BITRATE>
connected_time 0 inactive_time 0
rx_bytes 0 rx_packets 0 rx_dropped_misc 0
rx_duration 0 rx_beacon 76120 rx_beacon_signal_avg -34
tx_bytes 0 tx_packets 0 tx_failed 0
tx_duration 0 tx_retries 0
signal 0 signal_avg -24 ack_signal 0 avg_ack_signal 0
generation 0 assoc_req_ies_len 0 chains 0
rxrate: flags 5<MCS,SGI> bw 3(40) legacy 0 kbit/s mcs 15 nss 0
he_dcm 0 he_gi 0 he_ru_alloc 0 eht_gi 0
txrate: flags 5<MCS,SGI> bw 3(40) legacy 0 kbit/s mcs 7 nss 1
he_dcm 0 he_gi 0 he_ru_alloc 0 eht_gi 0
