On Mon, 21 Apr 2025, Peter Miller wrote:
On Mon Apr 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM CDT, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2025, Peter Miller wrote:
Hi Peter,
I saw the call for wifi testing [1], and tested. I thought I was one of the
people not connecting to 11ac. Then I forced 11ac in /etc/rc.conf and was
able to connect with 11ac, but, I have to restart networking to get it
working; sometimes multiple restarts.
Sometimes some repeated
ifconfig wlan0 scan
as super user will also do it (you'll notice when it doesn't return
immediately). Might be less destructive than restarting networking.
It did hang, but it didn't connect to 11ac. I ended up doing the restart
method again.
What was the scan result? Were the networks on 11a included at that
moment?
You could add multiple entries to wpa_supplicant.conf with bssid also set
and order them by priority. Shot in the dark.
My wifi is provided by a linksys velop whw03 [2] which has 2.4 and
5ghz enabled.
To use 11ac I have the following line in /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11ac WPA DHCP"
Once 11ac connects, I was able to get 300+ mbits using ookla-speedtest and
iperf3 locally.
All the info below is before I forced/added 11ac to rc.conf
Your scan reuslt only shows the 2.4Ghz SSID if that was all. That's
likely the issue.
Can you at some point also post the sysctl output and the scan result
when you are connected to 11a[c]? Would be interesting to know.
Here it is on 11ac.
Note: I switched to pkgbase today, so it's a slightly different kernel.
The sysctl only has beacon strength which looks okay and it is some list
of scan results but I cannot see why it would not have the 11a networks
in the scan results if not forced to 11a.
Can you try a bit more without setting it to 11ac and then check
wlanstat output or enable wlandebug wlan0 +scan if anything becomes
noticable.
Then the next question is: if your 11a network(s) show up in the scan
results will they be picked automatically, which was unclear above.
Lots of health,
/bz
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Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
