Re: AX200 running 11a????

Hello Kevin,

According to the corresponding man page iwlwifi currently only supports 802.11a/b/g. Personally I've only seen 802.11a working on my AX201.

Support for ac is supposed to follow soon. Support for ax is definitely also planned but will probably not happen anytime soon.

Alternatively, you can always spawn a small bhyve VM, run a suitable Linux distro in there, pass through the card and have the VM act as a gateway.
There's even an out-of-the-box solution available: net/wifibox


Best regards,
~ Joel


------- Original Message -------

On Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 at 18:08, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Another thread caused me to issue 'ifconfig wlan0' on my ax200 and the output shows that it is running 802.11a! This would go a long way in explaining my very poor performance.
>
> System running stable/13-n250140-4cf0cc507f3 from Mar28 (suun to be updated to today's 13-STABLE.
>
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>
> ether 6c:6a:77:ed:ce:d9
>
> inet 192.168.1.24 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>
> groups: wlan
>
> ssid babcom channel 157 (5785 MHz 11a) bssid 14:c0:3e:ec:a3:43
>
> regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
>
> deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 23 bmiss 7
>
> mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 wme roaming MANUAL
>
> parent interface: iwlwifi0
>
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11a
>
> status: associated
>
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
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>
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