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Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #47
favaq wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Goofy problems [...] abound for a _long time_ with seemingly no solution" is the norm in desktop Linux.

> "Goofy problems [...] abound for a _long time_ with seemingly no solution" is the norm in desktop Linux. Hey, it's still better than Windows:) To quote a bit from upthread, >>i should add that this happens on both windows and linux but at least on linux i had a way of disabling LAR so my regulatory domain gets detected properly and all the wifi channels/widths works as they should. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

Had, not has. That option no longer exists.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by throwaway5959 »

sofixa wrote: post #134
throwaway5959 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you really need to flag my post? I don’t think it’s fair to flag a post just because you disagree with me.

I don't think it's fair to assume that someone who writes a comment to tell you why they disagree with you, would also flag.

Right.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by heavyset_go »

wtallis wrote: post #94
eptcyka wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anything that's current and supported by OpenWRT? Whilst I love OpenWRT, it's support is more on the level of it works enough to tx/rx packets and not necessarily all of the hardware functionality is enabled and works as per the specification .

"All of the hardware functionality is enabled and works as per the specification" is a pretty high bar even for proprietary drivers, especially when the hardware has just hit the market. I think there are now a few hardware platforms capable of using the new 6GHz band channels ("WiFi 6E") on OpenWRT, but I haven't checked recently and haven't been looking to upgrade any of my hardware to support that (I'm doing just…

> I'm not sure what hardware capabilities you think are poorly supported by OpenWRT or the open-source drivers for the known-good hardware choices from the QCA lineage or Mediatek's mt76 family. Can you provide any specifics?

I can't speak for them, but I've used OpenWRT on routers with Broadcom chipsets, so I think they were saying that OpenWRT support isn't a good litmus test for drivers that support the full functionality of the hardware they're for.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by heavyset_go »

smallerfish wrote: post #31

Not related to wifi, but Intel broke the IPU6 webcam on Linux also. I have a Dell XPS13 - on the initial Ubuntu they shipped with, it was working, but after a dist-upgrade it stopped. There's lots of traffic out there, with some reports that it started working again with the 6.1 kernel, but on mine (with Dell drivers and 6.2 kernel) it's broken. There was another Intel related issue with this laptop also; the gpu wou…

My experience with AMD in laptops + Linux have been much better than the ones I've had with Intel laptops.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by wtallis »

heavyset_go wrote: post #143
wtallis wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"All of the hardware functionality is enabled and works as per the specification" is a pretty high bar even for proprietary drivers, especially when the hardware has just hit the market. I think there are now a few hardware platforms capable of using the new 6GHz band channels ("WiFi 6E") on OpenWRT, but I haven't checked recently and haven't been looking to upgrade any of my hardware to support that (I'm doing just…

> I'm not sure what hardware capabilities you think are poorly supported by OpenWRT or the open-source drivers for the known-good hardware choices from the QCA lineage or Mediatek's mt76 family. Can you provide any specifics? I can't speak for them, but I've used OpenWRT on routers with Broadcom chipsets, so I think they were saying that OpenWRT support isn't a good litmus test for drivers that support the full funct…

I specifically said "well-supported by OpenWRT", because even the most cursory investigation of what hardware works well with OpenWRT will warn you away from buying Broadcom.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by rektide »

prerok wrote: post #88
rektide wrote: post #84

5 week old issue. Ed: oops, 3 year old!! (what year is it?) No useful updates. Generally I think Intel is one of the best companies at open-source by far & it's a huge competitive advantage. But all companies of any notable size are companies of many smaller orgs... Still surprising, as Intel has excellent dedication to wifi & has great works like connman. But also... competitive advantages only matter if anyone noti…

5 weeks? It's actually 3 years.

Thanks! Apologies. Thanks thanks thanks. I edited the post after your posting. Thanks thanks thanks.

I also didn't know at the time this was limited to AP mode. Still, it being bad for so long is ultra-embarassing. I sincerely appreciate the correction. My bad.

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by PeppeX »

unxdfa wrote: post #41

I’m convinced the only thing Wi-Fi doesn’t fuck out on at the moment is windows. Had problems with Linux, macs and android for the last few years. Just works on windows! Shame about all the other problems with it.

Hi, I speak as a Windows user, these cards still do not work! No fixes have been released!

Re: Linux Intel WiFi driver broken with 5&6GHz bands for longer than three years

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Post by PeppeX »

PeppeX wrote: post #147
unxdfa wrote: post #41

I’m convinced the only thing Wi-Fi doesn’t fuck out on at the moment is windows. Had problems with Linux, macs and android for the last few years. Just works on windows! Shame about all the other problems with it.

Hi, I speak as a Windows user, these cards still do not work! No fixes have been released!

I tried installing Zorin Os as I hoped the problem would go away, but it still persists.I have an Intel Ax201 on Asus Rog Strix G712LW
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