Re: Do you use 11n on a daily basis on FreeBSD and can test things?

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> given we need to get towards 11n for newer Intel (and others) and 11ac I was
> reading code (for other purposes actually) and was wondering who is
> using 11n on a daily basis on FreeBSD?  And if you are willing/able to
> test changes?
>
> If so please let me know the following and reply to me privately (Reply-To is
> set!)

Is NOT set, the mailing list software munched it ...

>  and I'll assemble a list.  I may share the list with others working on
> wireless.
>
>
> Please answer the following questions (adjusting wlan0 etc. to your setup):
>
> (1) Are you using 11n on FreeBSD on a daily basis? [y/n]
>
> (2) Are you willing to the patches for drivers/kernel timely (say within
> a week)? [y/n]
>
> (2a) On FreeBSD CURRENT (main)? [y/n]
> (2b) On FreeBSD stable/14? [y/n]
> (2c) On FreeBSD stable/13? [y/n]
>
> (3) Which hardware/chipset/driver are you using?
>    Please provide (3b depending on PCI or USB [*]):
>
> (3a) ifconfig -v wlan0 | egrep -Ev "^[[:space:]](ether|inet)"
> (3b-i) pciconf -lv `ifconfig wlan0 | awk '/parent interface/ { print $3 }'`
> (3b-ii) usbconfig show_ifdrv | grep `ifconfig wlan0 | awk '/parent interface/ 
> { print $3 }'` | cut -d: -f1 | xargs -n 1 -J % usbconfig -d % 
> dump_device_desc
>
> (4) What is your AP?
> (4a) If FreeBSD please provide the answers from (3) for it as well.
> (4b) Otherwise (as you know) - Vendor/Model/Chipset (vendor) if known and
>     if can you get statistics/errors/logs/... from it?
>
> (5) Can I share your details with others working on wireless? [y/n]
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bjoern
>
> [*] We should really make our tooling simpler to be able to get this info.
> Improvemnts to scripting also welcome :)
>
>

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7