On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 at 01:47, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 20/08/2025 03:17, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Yeah, that's hella odd and i don't like it. I'll go try to reproduce it > here. > > This just also really keeps reminding me/us that we sorely need a > > channel config and regulatory support uplift during -16 development. > > Thank you for looking into this. > > BTW, maybe I should have started with a simpler question. > Do I need to do anything special to configure 11ac? > Any requirements for it or should it just work out of the box? > > The goal is it should work out of the box, but as you've just seen with regulatory domain stuff, there's still a lot of quirky behaviour.
> Another thing to mention is that I tried to setup this dongle both with > and > without the firmware module. > That is, in one case I have these in loader.conf: > legal.realtek.license_ack=1 > > > rtwn-rtl8821aufw_load="YES" > And in the other I have them connected out. > You do want firmware loaded. It should auto-load fine. > > I did not notice much difference, both configurations behave "erratically". > One difference is that with the firmware I also see this kernel message on > every > association attempt: > kernel: rate2ridx: called; unknown rate (0) > We need to figure out that, as that's telling me that a rate was chosen that isn't "right". (0 isn't a valid rate.) -adrian > > -- > Andriy Gapon >
