On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <b...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> XB! > > Hello everyone, > > I cmmitted TKIP support for LinuxKPI to main (will MFC in a few days). > The needed net80211 change went in as well (I think yesterday?). > > If you want to try it you have to enable it in loader.conf setting: > compat.linuxkpi.80211.tkip=1 > > The reason for this is that I belive that rtw88/rtw89 would need further > support in mac80211 and I don't want to break them currently. > Furthermore I don't want people to encourage using it anymore if > avoidable. > > I could only test on legacy (11g/11a) as (a) I had to force TKIP on on > my APs and (b) if TKIP was used I was not allowed to associate with HT/VHT > anymore. I hope the APs/Routers for the people waiting for this will > allow them at least on HT (or VHT) depending on age. > > I made sure that at least the Gtk (Group Temporal Key) update worked for > me. > > Please report back how this goes! > > Lots of joy, > Bjoern Thanks for getting this out. Seems to be working fine for my Alder Lake iwlwifi. That said, enabling TKIP did trigger some unexpected changes... unexpected, but not bad. wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=0 ether 70:a8:d3:df:3c:de inet 192.168.1.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 groups: wlan ssid babcom channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid c0:89:ab:60:ae:68 regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS -ampdu ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 16 -amsdutx amsdurx shortgi -ldpctx ldpcrx -uapsd wme roaming MANUAL parent interface: iwlwifi0 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet MCS mode 11ng status: associated nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> As you can see, I now have mode 11ng. Ths appeared when I restarted with compat.linuxkpi.80211.tkip=1 buth without enabling hardware crypto. If I look at the sysctl, it shows '0'. No AC, but my router does not support it, so no surprise. I did expect to see 5M as the router supports it and "ifconfig wlan0 list aps" claims that it is 54M, but on channel 11. How can channel 11 run 54M? In any case, I will be moving tomorrow and will be on Comcast with a newer router. I assume that this will provide CCMP, IPv6, and generally work better. I see other network issues that also apply to my phone, and I suspect Frontier getting minimal maintenance until the Verizon acquisition is completed. My upload speed is 860M while download is only 40M which is really weird. This is both on my laptop and my phone. As always, thanks to you and the Foundation! -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
