I have mixed feelings about this going to older releases. I'm one of the first using this release, and it worked very well, both when I was using Plucky, and still doing well after I updated to Questing (I know, risky thing to do). It works very well in my device. I can use WiFi 7 almost flawlessly. I said almost because my router is a Banana Pi BPI-R4 with OpenWrt SNAPSHOT that I compile every couple of days. Said that, I still can't try MLO, but because OpenWrt still implementing it. Said that, and that, I think would be great if we test during Questing, and port for a future version of Noble, since it will be a very long life and WiFi 7 and MLO would be nice to have. So my idea is: test more, wait for a next LTS release, and don't port for Plucky.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to wpa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2117497 Title: No Wifi 7 MLO support Status in wpa package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in wpa source package in Noble: New Status in wpa source package in Plucky: New Status in wpa source package in Questing: Fix Released Bug description: SRU Justification: [ Impact ] * This is a hardware-enablement SRU * Recent wifi modules are compatible with wifi 7 that comes with a bunch of cool features like Multi-Link Operation (MLO) which speeds up wifi. The kernel is compatible with these since 24.04 (Noble) * wpa 2.11 is required for these features to be available. it's available in Questing already. The release note is here: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2024-July/042847.html * There were 2295 commits from 2.10 to 2.11. During these, the wifi 7 support and reliability was gradually improved. It feels much safer to backport the version from Questing entirely compared to cherry-picking patches. * The 2.11 version landed in Questing a bit more than a month ago, which gave time for this new version to be tested by all questing users. [ Fix ] * The proposed fix consists in backporting the version from questing, entirely. [ Test Plan ] 1. Run the Wireless Network certification suite from Checkbox, that will * Connect and disconnect to all kind of wifi * Scan the network wireless/wireless_scanning_interface wireless/wireless_connection_wpa_bg_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_open_bg_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_wpa_n_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_open_n_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_wpa_ac_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_open_ac_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_wpa_ax_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_wpa3_ax_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_open_ax_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_wpa_be_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_wpa3_be_nm_interface wireless/wireless_connection_open_be_nm_interface 2. Run the Multi-link operation test suite from Checkbox, that will test the compatibility with MLO wireless/wifi7_mlo_interface 3. My test plan involves having 5 persons using this daily for a week (at least on Noble). I'd like to have a diverse set of routers and machines involved. The testers will be asked to be more aware than usual about wifi disconnections, and reliability. I'll ask them to run bandwith test every morning with both the proposed package and the original one. [ Where problems could occur ] * Given the size of the update, any wifi-related issue could happen. * The test plan tries to cover as much wifi usage as possible to reflect this. [ Other Info ] * I've been using wpa 2.11 on my side for a month, on Noble. No issue there, but I don't have a wifi 7 router. -------------------------------------------------------- original description: hostapd/wpa_supplicant got a new version: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2024-July/042847.html This issue is about bumping the version Ubuntu. Debian is not up-to- date, yet. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/2117497/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
