No IEEE80211N in HOSTAPD 11-Release

[Pietro Sammarco]

Hey Adrian.

Thank you so much for clarifying this. It honestly felt way to strange 
that FreeBSD didn't support HOSTAPD 802.11n.

Best Regards,

Pietro Sammarco


On 05/29/2017 01:38 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> hi,
>
> the TL;DR is - we do support 11n, it's just done in net80211. So no,
> you don't need to tell hostapd anything special about it for now.
>
>
> -a
>
> On 28 May 2017 at 23:11, Pietro Sammarco via freebsd-wireless
> <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hello folks. I recently bought a APU2C4 for the solely purpose to have it
>> as a all in one FreeBSD router, firewall, HOSTAPD.
>>
>> It has got two mini PCIe Compex WLE200NX,  which uses the Atheros AR9280
>> chipset.
>>
>> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe400000-0xfe40ffff at device 0.0 on pci1
>> ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
>> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
>> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
>> ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams
>> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
>> ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
>>
>> However though,  I am running into a sort of nightmare with getting 802.11n
>> to work with hostapd.
>>
>> Line 6: unknown configuration item 'ieee80211n'
>>
>> I could be totally wrong, but from what I understood IEEE80211N is disabled
>> both from the hostapd binary included with system base(I am on FreeBSD
>> 11-relese p9), as well as from the one in ports/pkg.
>>
>> Does this mean that I won't be getting no 802.11n love?
>>
>> If so, is there any reason of why 802.11n has been disabled from hostapd?
>>
>> If this turns out to be true, I honestly don't know whether is worth to
>> venture compiling hostapd from source or rather going with pfsense, since
>> they got it patched some 3 years ago.
>>
>> I appreciate your help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pietro
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