Fwd: support for 802.11n?

[Jeandre Kruger <jeandreckruger%gmail.com@localhost>]

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From: Jeandre Kruger <jeandreckruger%gmail.com@localhost>
Date: Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: support for 802.11n?
To: Jörn Clausen <joernc%googlemail.com@localhost>


On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 12:21 am Jörn Clausen, <joernc%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> dmesg shows
>
> ...
>
> Trying to set it to 11n anyway:
>
> $ ifconfig iwm0 mode 11n
> ifconfig: unknown IEEE802.11 media mode: 11n
>
> which is consistent with ifconfig(1) only mentioning 11a, 11b and 11g. OTOH
>
> $ ifconfig iwm0 mode 11ac
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Invalid argument
>
> 11ac is a valid mode but not supported???
>
> ...

If it did work, you would need to specify 11ng or 11na (if you try
now, the error will be the same as 11ac).  Apparently I didn't read
ifconfig's output carefully enough, since you and Nat are definitely
correct about the old stack.

Details about the new stack are here --
https://wiki.netbsd.org/Wifi_renewal_on_hg/
https://wiki.netbsd.org/Testing_new_wifi/