trouble connecting to wifi
Zsolt SZASZ
zsolty_szasz at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 1 07:40:19 UTC 2015
Its working stable!
I try to contact the pfsense core team about this option to be added in
the future.
Shall I install 11-Current and continue from there with the testing?
On 6/30/2015 12:19 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> hi,
>
> you can do that. but I'm surprised there's no way in pfsense to
> explicitly configure the channel as being ht/20 only.
>
> You may find some devices won't let you tune to channel 13. It's all
> very regulatory-y restricted.
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 29 June 2015 at 13:14, zsolty szasz <zsolty_szasz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I checked all the wireless channels which my adapter supports.
>>
>> #ifconfig -v ath0_wlan0 list channel
>> Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11b Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g
>> Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g
>> ht/20
>> Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g ht/20 Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g
>> ht/40+
>> Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g ht/40+ Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g
>> ht/40-
>> Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11b Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11b
>> Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11g Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g
>> Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11g ht/20 Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g
>> ht/20
>> Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11g ht/40+ Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g
>> ht/40-
>> Channel 3 : 2422 MHz 11b Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11b
>> Channel 3 : 2422 MHz 11g Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11g
>> Channel 3 : 2422 MHz 11g ht/20 Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11g
>> ht/20
>> Channel 3 : 2422 MHz 11g ht/40+ Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11g
>> ht/40-
>> Channel 4 : 2427 MHz 11b Channel 10 : 2457 MHz 11b
>> Channel 4 : 2427 MHz 11g Channel 10 : 2457 MHz 11g
>> Channel 4 : 2427 MHz 11g ht/20 Channel 10 : 2457 MHz 11g
>> ht/20
>> Channel 4 : 2427 MHz 11g ht/40+ Channel 10 : 2457 MHz 11g
>> ht/40-
>> Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11b Channel 11 : 2462 MHz 11b
>> Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11g Channel 11 : 2462 MHz 11g
>> Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11g ht/20 Channel 11 : 2462 MHz 11g
>> ht/20
>> Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11g ht/40+ Channel 11 : 2462 MHz 11g
>> ht/40-
>> Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11g ht/40- Channel 12 : 2467 MHz 11b
>> Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11b Channel 12 : 2467 MHz 11g
>> Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11g Channel 12 : 2467 MHz 11g
>> ht/20
>> Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11g ht/20 Channel 13 : 2472 MHz 11b
>> Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11g ht/40+ Channel 13 : 2472 MHz 11g
>> Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11g ht/40- Channel 13 : 2472 MHz 11g
>> ht/20
>> Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11b
>>
>> I changed my settings to channel 13 since that is using only ht/20. Is that
>> ok for further testing?
>>
>> #ifconfig
>> ath0_wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> 1500
>> ether 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>> inet6 fe80::32b5:c2ff:fe63:5177%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
>> inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>> nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap>
>> status: running
>> ssid freebsdap channel 13 (2472 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid
>> 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>> regdomain ETSI country RO indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
>> privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 scanvalid 60
>> protmode OFF ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8 shortgi wme burst
>> -apbridge
>> dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, June 29, 2015 12:45 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> no, you'll have to ask the pfsense people if they provided a UI to set
>> the channel to HT/20 only.
>>
>>
>> -a
>>
>>
>> On 28 June 2015 at 14:37, Zsolt SZASZ <zsolty_szasz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> with ifconfig ath0_wlan0 -ampdu ? or default?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/28/2015 11:41 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>> Ok, it's doing HT/40 in 11n mode, and you're on channel 3.
>>>>
>>>> Try HT/20.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 28 June 2015 at 13:37, Zsolt SZASZ <zsolty_szasz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> ifconfig returns this (ifconfig ath0_wlan0 -ampdu is setup):
>>>>>
>>>>> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>>>>> 2290
>>>>> ether 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>>>>> nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng
>>>>> <hostap>
>>>>> status: running
>>>>>
>>>>> ath0_wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
>>>>> mtu
>>>>> 1500
>>>>> ether 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>>>>> inet6 fe80::32b5:c2ff:fe63:5177%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid
>>>>> 0x8
>>>>> inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>>>>> nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng
>>>>> <hostap>
>>>>> status: running
>>>>> ssid freebsdap channel 3 (2422 MHz 11g ht/40+) bssid
>>>>> 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>>>>> regdomain ETSI country RO indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
>>>>> privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit
>>>>> txpower 30 scanvalid 60 protmode OFF -ampdu ampdulimit 64k
>>>>> ampdudensity 8 shortgi wme burst -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>>>>>
>>>>> stable 11g is:
>>>>>
>>>>> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>>>>> 2290
>>>>> ether 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>>>>> nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>>>>> <hostap>
>>>>> status: running
>>>>>
>>>>> ath0_wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
>>>>> mtu
>>>>> ether 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>>>>> inet6 fe80::32b5:c2ff:fe63:5177%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid
>>>>> 0x8
>>>>> inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
>>>>> nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>>>>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>>>>> <hostap>
>>>>> status: running
>>>>> ssid freebsdap channel 3 (2422 MHz 11g) bssid 30:b5:c2:63:51:77
>>>>> regdomain ETSI country RO indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
>>>>> privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 scanvalid
>>>>> 60
>>>>> protmode OFF wme burst -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/27/2015 8:28 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>>>>>> ok, so you have to use no-11n in order for it to be tsable, ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> when you test, can you just verify that it's always using the same
>>>>>> channel?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> are you using HT/20 or HT/40 when you're in 11n mode?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -a
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 25 June 2015 at 08:10, zsolty szasz <zsolty_szasz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> No joy!
>>>>>>> Besides that I had also a lot of these: ath0_wlan0: discard frame w/o
>>>>>>> leading ethernet header (len 6 pkt len 6).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One night when WiFi stopped working then I came with my laptop in my
>>>>>>> hand
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> sit in front of my router to do the usual ifconfig ath0 down/up but
>>>>>>> before
>>>>>>> doing that I observed that while I was near to the wifi antenna with
>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>> laptop the wifi started to work fine again without doing anything (on
>>>>>>> laptop
>>>>>>> the connection went from 15Mbps to 280Mbps automatically). I don't
>>>>>>> know
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> this information is usefully to you. Of course this happened only one
>>>>>>> time,
>>>>>>> I tried next day the same and it wasn't enough.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Monday, June 22, 2015 11:07 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's fine. Ok, try this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ifconfig ath0_wlan0 -ampdu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .. then reassociate evryone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -adrian
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>
More information about the freebsd-wireless
mailing list