Hi, did anyone get 5ghz AP working? 2,4ghz works fine with hostapd but I am having issues using 80211ac with any channel. Spoiler: hostapd output [...] wlp3s0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->COUNTRY_UPDATE Channel 149 (primary) not allowed for AP mode wlp3s0: IEEE 802.11 Configured channel (149 [e.g.]) not found from the channel list of current mode (2) IEEE 802.11a wlp3s0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured channel Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-3) wlp3s0: interface state COUNTRY_UPDATE->DISABLED [...] Tried using country code DE (DFS-ETSI) and 00 (DFS-UNSET)... Could not find much information online regarding the AC3168 in ac AP mode...
This wireless chipset physically not support ap in 5gz.only 2.4 gz https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi P.S.For better work you must create file /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf with this: options iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0 swcrypto=1 11n_disable=8
Hi, thanks for the reply Where did you find the information that the 5ghz band does not support 5ghz AP?
Just click link https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi Features Station (client) AP mode on 2.4GHz (on devices driven by iwlmvm) P2P and multi-role (on devices driven by iwlmvm) Wi-Fi Aware*, Wi-Fi Location* are experimental on 8260 Monitor (sniffer) IBSS (Ad-Hoc) This device driven by iwlmvm module. A have tonns of trouble with this card on OpenWRT/LEDE, it's a very bad choice for ap mode.
Just a little log [ 2073.930574] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000. [ 2073.930733] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump: [ 2073.930744] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Status: 0x00000000, count: 6 [ 2073.930754] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 27.455470.0 [ 2073.930766] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00001007 | ADVANCED_SYSASSERT [ 2073.930774] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x008006B4 | trm_hw_status0 [ 2073.930782] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000000 | trm_hw_status1 [ 2073.930790] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00043CDC | branchlink2 [ 2073.930798] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x0004AE8E | interruptlink1 [ 2073.930805] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000000 | interruptlink2 [ 2073.930813] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00030400 | data1 [ 2073.930821] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x0000040B | data2 [ 2073.930828] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0xDEADBEEF | data3 [ 2073.930836] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x9FC13E07 | beacon time [ 2073.930844] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0xF6232DF9 | tsf low [ 2073.930851] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000001 | tsf hi [ 2073.930859] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000000 | time gp1 [ 2073.930867] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x0450B9B6 | time gp2 [ 2073.930874] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000001 | uCode revision type [ 2073.930882] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x0000001B | uCode version major [ 2073.930890] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x0006F32E | uCode version minor [ 2073.930898] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000220 | hw version [ 2073.930905] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00C89200 | board version [ 2073.930913] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x0ABC001C | hcmd [ 2073.930921] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x80022002 | isr0 [ 2073.930928] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000000 | isr1 [ 2073.930935] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000002 | isr2 [ 2073.930943] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x004138C5 | isr3
Awww I completely missed that, only read the sheet about the AC3168, thanks for the heads up Well... I guess 80211n is good enough. I have had no problems with that setup yet. Using Gentoo (kernel 4.13.5 [custom]) and the official microcode for that card). I guess you are using the official firmware too?
Yes,official from kernel.org. Intel ac cards - it's a crap,using bluetooth - bad wifi signal,and many other sh.... Unfortunaly i don't find ath9k cards with m.2 slot.only mini pci ,ath9k cards it's the best for ap mode.and they have fully open source drivers
