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Last time I checked, Intel consumer wi-fi cards would not even let you do AP on 5GHz (the entire spectrum was marked No-IR in firmware regardless of regulatory

Last time I checked, Intel consumer wi-fi cards would not even let you do AP on 5GHz (the entire spectrum was marked No-IR in firmware regardless of regulatory domain with no way to override it). But this was a while ago, I'd be also curious to know if they came to their senses. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000030429/network-and-i-o/wireless.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

stragies 6y ago
The "disable_lar" option enabled "iw reg set" to override what the eeprom stupidly forbids, until linux kernel-version 5.5, when the nice people @Intel removed the option without an alternative, that doesn't mark your kernel as tainted. (If I'm wrong, and you/somebody knows a way to re-enable AP-on-5GHz-on-Linux-5.5+ for iwlwifi on signed distribution kernels without Out-Of-Tree Taint, please comment) And on top it they refuse to release support for 802.11s mesh! Even for 2.4GHz!
- rektide 6y ago
  I'm curious how many of the new commercial home wifi mesh systems out there use 802.11s. A couple of years, I'd been under the impression that many folk in wifi mesh land were using BATMAN or Babel or one of the two dozen other routing protocols[1]. OLPC was the last big 802.11s user that I knew of, and I never heard glowing reviews, but that was a decade ago. I'm curious how things are shaping up these days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network#Routing_protocols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network#Routing_...
  - stragies 6y ago
    Rather well for the Batman, using any underlying type of transport technology/protocol like 802.11s, RSN-IBSS, wired links!, etc. These days, batman is absolutely painless to setup in Debian and OpenWRT, and works great. (Only caveat is, that this excludes Intel Wifi because they support neither 802.11s nor RSN-IBSS for total meshing.)

stragies 6y ago

The "disable_lar" option enabled "iw reg set" to override what the eeprom stupidly forbids, until linux kernel-version 5.5, when the nice people @Intel removed the option without an alternative, that doesn't mark your kernel as tainted. (If I'm wrong, and you/somebody knows a way to re-enable AP-on-5GHz-on-Linux-5.5+ for iwlwifi on signed distribution kernels without Out-Of-Tree Taint, please comment) And on top it they refuse to release support for 802.11s mesh! Even for 2.4GHz!

rektide 6y ago
I'm curious how many of the new commercial home wifi mesh systems out there use 802.11s. A couple of years, I'd been under the impression that many folk in wifi mesh land were using BATMAN or Babel or one of the two dozen other routing protocols[1]. OLPC was the last big 802.11s user that I knew of, and I never heard glowing reviews, but that was a decade ago. I'm curious how things are shaping up these days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network#Routing_protocols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network#Routing_...
- stragies 6y ago
  Rather well for the Batman, using any underlying type of transport technology/protocol like 802.11s, RSN-IBSS, wired links!, etc. These days, batman is absolutely painless to setup in Debian and OpenWRT, and works great. (Only caveat is, that this excludes Intel Wifi because they support neither 802.11s nor RSN-IBSS for total meshing.)