On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:43:26PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:32:37 +0200 > Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So 11g works, and only 11n mode is broken? > > Your AP probably doesn't support 11a mode. > > Sorry, Stefan, but I didn't think to try 11n mode. I must have taken > your instructions too literally. > > However, I tried 11n at home after work, and that didn't work. Neither > did 11a or 11g. Worse, when I tried connecting to my phone's access > point using 11g, that didn't work either. Nor did rebooting help. > > I *was* able to make wifi work using a MX Linux LiveUSB, so I don't > think it's the hardware (and I really don't want to go back to Linux).
Sounds like the driver is unable to send any frames at all :-/ > > If you could test kernels of older releases and check whether 11n mode > > was working at some point, that would help me. > > Would pulling the bsd.rd for 6.4 and temporarily reverting to that > release help? Testing just bsd.rd is enough. If the bsd.rd environment is too limiting you could also install to a USB stick and boot from it for testing purposes. Either approach should suffice to test a wifi connection.
