Hello everyone, Im one of the sad people not getting IEEE80211n to run (in hostap!). Im having an (should be) supported AR9280 chip using an pcMachines APU2 device.
---- root@orion:~ # dmesg | grep ath ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe800000-0xfe80ffff at device 0.0 on pci4 [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0 ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0 --- At the moment, the machine is running an 11.0-RELEASE (pretty vanilla, except a couple of installed pkg's) I just got my hands on it a couple of days ago, right now Im using the well-working 11g mode: ------------------------ snip ------------------------------ wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 04:f0:21:30:ee:3b inet6 fe80::6f0:21ff:fe30:ee3b%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap> status: running ssid int.ninth-art.de channel 10 (2457 MHz 11g) bssid 04:f0:21:30:ee:3b regdomain ETSI country DE ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs groups: wlan ------------------------ snip ------------------------------ The wlan0 device is part of an bridge, because I need it working that way (not sure if that matters). I get proper supported channels with 'ifconfig wlan0 list channels': ------------------------ snip ------------------------------ root@orion:~ # ifconfig wlan0 list channels Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g ht Channel 48 : 5240 MHz 11a ht Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11g ht Channel 52 : 5260* MHz 11a ht Channel 3 : 2422 MHz 11g ht Channel 56 : 5280* MHz 11a ht Channel 4 : 2427 MHz 11g ht Channel 60 : 5300* MHz 11a ht Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11g ht Channel 64 : 5320* MHz 11a ht Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11g ht Channel 100 : 5500* MHz 11a ht Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g ht Channel 104 : 5520* MHz 11a ht Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g ht Channel 108 : 5540* MHz 11a ht Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11g ht Channel 112 : 5560* MHz 11a ht Channel 10 : 2457 MHz 11g ht Channel 116 : 5580* MHz 11a ht Channel 11 : 2462 MHz 11g ht Channel 120 : 5600* MHz 11a ht Channel 12 : 2467 MHz 11g ht Channel 124 : 5620* MHz 11a ht Channel 13 : 2472 MHz 11g ht Channel 128 : 5640* MHz 11a ht Channel 36 : 5180 MHz 11a ht Channel 132 : 5660* MHz 11a ht Channel 40 : 5200 MHz 11a ht Channel 136 : 5680* MHz 11a ht Channel 44 : 5220 MHz 11a ht Channel 140 : 5700* MHz 11a ht ------------------------ snip ------------------------------ I tried several commands such as 'ifconfig wlan0 mode 11n (or 11ng) channel 6:ht/40 - or just channel 40 etc. All my attempts result in: ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument Not sure what's the proper way to setup 11n(g) - there are multiple entries on multiple forums, people basically tinkering around until they may get it working (or not?). Any hints where I can read up how this works or an page which tells the definitive commands which are necessary is highly appreciated. As far as I understood 11.0-RELEASE should be recent enough (?), however I can of course upgrade the box to 11.0-STABLE as well. Just not sure if its worth the buzz... best regards, Georg -- Georg Bege Mail: georg@bege.email XMPP: ther...@ninth-art.de IRC: megaTherion @ Freenode
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