On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:43:26PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:32:37 +0200
> Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > So 11g works, and only 11n mode is broken?
> > Your AP probably doesn't support 11a mode.
> 
> Sorry, Stefan, but I didn't think to try 11n mode. I must have taken
> your instructions too literally.
> 
> However, I tried 11n at home after work, and that didn't work. Neither
> did 11a or 11g. Worse, when I tried connecting to my phone's access
> point using 11g, that didn't work either. Nor did rebooting help.
> 
> I *was* able to make wifi work using a MX Linux LiveUSB, so I don't
> think it's the hardware (and I really don't want to go back to Linux).

Sounds like the driver is unable to send any frames at all :-/

> > If you could test kernels of older releases and check whether 11n mode
> > was working at some point, that would help me.
> 
> Would pulling the bsd.rd for 6.4 and temporarily reverting to that
> release help?

Testing just bsd.rd is enough. If the bsd.rd environment is too limiting
you could also install to a USB stick and boot from it for testing purposes.

Either approach should suffice to test a wifi connection.

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