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garywill
WiFi 6 Support
Adds partial wifi 6 support.
Connection Test Screenshot:
Tested on an RTL8852BE WifFi 6 PCIe Card for hotspot and a Samsung S24+ Phone as host
Command used for testing:
sudo /usr/local/bin/lnxrouter --dns 127.0.0.1 -d --ap $interface rock5boi -p asiudfbla --no-virt -c 149 --freq-band 5 -w "1+2" --no-virt --hs20 --wifi4 --req-ht --ht-capab "[HT40+][HT40-][LDPC][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][TX-STBC][RX-STBC1][MAX-AMSDU-7935][DSSS_CCK-40][SMPS-STATIC]" --wifi5 --req-vht --vht-capab "[MAX-MPDU-11454][RXLDPC][SHORT-GI-80][TX-STBC-2BY1][SU-BEAMFORMEE][HTC-VHT]" --vht-ch-width 1 --vht-seg0-ch 155 --country BZ --no-dnsmasq -g 10.9.8.1 --ieee80211ax --he-ch-width 1 --he-seg0-ch 155
New arguments:
--wifi6Enable IEEE 802.11ax (HE)--req-heRequire station HE (High Efficiency) mode--he-ch-width <index>Index of HE channel width:0for 20MHz or 40MHz (default)1for 80MHz2for 160MHz3for 80+80MHz (Non-contigous 160MHz)--he-seg0-ch <channel>Channel index of HE center frequency for primary segment. Use with '--he-ch-width'--he-seg1-ch <channel>Channel index of HE center frequency for secondary (second 80MHz) segment. Use with '--he-ch-width 3'
Above arguments operate similar to their wifi5 counterparts.
Notes:
- Wifi 6 requires hostapd built with wifi 6 support, with "CONFIG_IEEE80211AX=y" in buildconf
- Wifi 6 hotspot only works with wifi 6 cards only
- Requires additional testing
- Need to add more HE capabilities to the script.
- Wifi 6 is backward compatible with wifi 5 clients only if
--req-heis NOT used.
Error when trying to connect with a WiFi 5 client to a WiFi 6 Hotspot WITH `--req-he`
Red box shows the error when a wifi 5 client tries to connect when --req-he is used. Green box shows a successful connection to a wifi 6 client
Sorry for late reply. Could you please rebase? Your commit seems to base on a quite old branch
I havent been having much time to work on this. We may have to celebrate 1 year anniversary of this mr before I can add any changes 😅
The base branch is referring 0.6.7 script
@garywill can you fix that? I used the latest commit on your master branch to add my changes.
I merged the 2 branches. Haven't tested or reviewed the code. I'm still busy on other jobs. Need some time before we merge this PR.
Dear all I have a MTK7621AU USB currently works well with WIFI5 via Linux router latest release. I can help test the WiFi 6 cap could you please hint me which script should I test with? Excuse me I am not a trained developer have has limited knowledge on the git control thing.
Use this script: https://github.com/kphanipavan/linux-router/blob/master/lnxrouter
Also, make sure you have a wifi 6 card. MT76 series support upto wifi 5 only.
Use this script: https://github.com/kphanipavan/linux-router/blob/master/lnxrouter
Also, make sure you have a wifi 6 card. MT76 series support upto wifi 5 only.
Thank you I will have a try and report back.
- It's MT7921AU indeed
@kphanipavan Did you test 6GHz (6e) ? If this pr includes 6GHz feature, we also need to change several FREQ_BAND judgement.
If not, we can do that in the future when we really take 6GHz as a feature
@garywill I didnt test 6e yet. This pr is only for WiFi 6, not 6e. Lets deal with 6e later. Lets have wifi 6 complete and stable for v0.8. I still have some more flags to add.
Hold on... I'm going go click squash merge for this pr, to make the git history tree tidy. Let me revert the lint commit first. Open a new pr for new commits, after squash merge
Ok. I am working on adding more wifi6 feature flags. I will create new pr for those. I will also add the lint commit to that pr.
Cheers for the merge. Hoping people test this before I am done with the features pr.