Hello again
El jue., 23 abr. 2020 a las 12:31, Stefan Sperling (<[email protected]>) escribió: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:13:09PM +0200, Giacomo wrote: > > Hi Stefan. Thanks for Your prompt response! > > Since I seem to understand firmware is taken from linux iwlwifi, my idea > > was to understand which one(s) you picked up and how you built the > > package iwx-firmware-20191022p0. > > Maybe worth trying with some other .ucode in there.. don't know, just > > guessing. > > I am not an expert > > Just dropping in another firmware won't magically fix anything. > Firmware and driver need to be in sync for things to work. > > I understand > I picked the lowest FW version (46) the device supports because > this means the least amount of changes had to be made relative > to iwm(4) code (the iwx driver code was derived from iwm). > > > What do you mean by specific environment? > > It is a PCI-E card installed on my desktop. Yesterday I did a fresh > > snapshot of 6.7 installation and configured the card with WPA2. > > Even before configuring it and being able to connect to the network > > (stuttering) dmesg frequently printed that message related to "SCAN". > > Sounds like you have 'ifconfig iwx0 debug' enabled? > Not that I am aware of :-) Never typed any debug on the command line, nor in /etc/hostname.iwx0 If in case, how to check it is enabled? > I don't see why SCAN messages would appear otherwise. > Actually, my mistake. SOME OF the dmesg messages ended with a reference to SCAN, probably prior to connect to the wpa. AS you can see from my initial message, in the attached dmesg there is no reference to SCAN. > > Frequent printing to dmesg can interfere with regular operation. > Please only enable 'debug' if really needed. > > > I tried to measure the speed as soon as I got a desktop working, and it > > goes from some hundred to 800/900 Kbits per second. > > Probably this very slow rate has to do with unlucky firmware and > continuous > > connection resets. > > Gmail is not able to load, for example. > > > > What is the speed you get? Is it stable? > > It is working OK for me up with up to somewhere around 20 Mbps. > Linux can of course drive the device to be a lot faster than that but > we don't support full 11n, let alone 11ac, yet. > Yes, I've read it in man page. 20Mbps would be good indeed, and expected for 802.11g. And yes, with linux I reach 60Mbps in 11n, or ac, don't know exactly.. Let me know if I can help somehow Kind regards, Giacomo -- Giacomo S. http://www.giacomos.it Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. di interesse nazionale Strada Statale 14 - km 163,5 in AREA Science Park 34149 Basovizza, Trieste ITALY - 040 3758073 328 3237959
