Contributed by rueda on from the wi-five dept.
Following a request-for-testing
thread
on tech@,
Stefan Sperling (stsp@)
has
committed
some
IEEE 802.11ac
support to
iwx(4):
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: stsp@cvs.openbsd.org 2022/03/14 09:08:50 Modified files: sys/dev/pci : if_iwx.c if_iwxreg.h if_iwxvar.h Log message: Add initial support for 802.11ac (VHT) to the iwx(4) driver. This makes it possible to use 80MHz channels and VHT-specific MCS. Other 11ac features remain disabled for now. Tested: ax200: Matthias Schmidt, phessler, dv, kevlo, Joel Carnat, hrvoje, jmc, stsp ax201: mlarkin, stsp iwm (regression testing): stsp
As always, thanks Stefan!
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By d. c. (d.c.) on
THX for your great work!
As there is just little wireless cards by Intel available in miniPCIe package (if there are any), it's of a limited usability for me and my PCEngines routers, but it is always nice to hear.
Any notion of similar features being available for Atheros cards in near future? athn(4) mentions, there might be some 802.11 stack work needed - is that still true?
Comments
By Stefan Sperling (stsp) stsp@openbsd.org on http://stsp.name
Is is possible to use M.2 cards in an APU with a suitable adapter.
While iwx(4) was in early development I was using an APU with an AX200 card inside as my hardware testbed. Only AX201 cards won't work because they require Intel-proprietary CNVi support in the CPU, which the APU does not have.
By Stefan Sperling (stsp) stsp@openbsd.org on http://stsp.name
Regarding athn(4), yes, it is still true. We will need an A-MPDU scheduler in net80211 to add proper 11n support with Tx aggregation to this driver. On Intel cards such scheduling is handled by firmware.
Comments
By d.c. (d.c.) on
Thank you for your explanation and a hint. It's greatly appreciated!
By rueda (rueda) on
Now available for iwm(4), too!