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From: "David R. Bergstein" <david.r.bergstein@gmail.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Tony Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Cc: Pkshih <pkshih@realtek.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Realtek r8822be kernel module does not negotiate 802.11ac connection
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 13:09:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96c5b6c4-61fe-570d-ba2d-7721b1be7cca@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c64c435c-fda7-9356-0205-093182fb1398@lwfinger.net>

Larry,

I tried using iw but it gives the same reading for bit rate.  In regard
to the firmware, it was not installed via "make install" so I did it
manually.

Sincerely,

David R. Bergstein

On 3/2/19 12:58 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Larry,
>>
>> Sorry about all these extra replies.  Shortly after I sent my last
>> message my access point started recognizing the connection as 802.11ac
>> with PHY Rate / Modulation Rate of 866.6 Mbps.  What is somewhat
>> misleading is the information reported by iwconfig (see bit rate below).
>>
>> $ iwconfig wlo1
>> wlo1      IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"XXXXXXXXXX-5G"
>>            Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.22 GHz  Access Point:
>> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>>            Bit Rate=6.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power=23 dBm
>>            Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>>            Power Management:on
>>            Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-40 dBm
>>            Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>>            Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:11   Missed beacon:0
>
> The utility iwconfig is obsolete and not exactly up to date with the
> latest in wireless. I am not an expert on iw, but I think you want 'iw
> dev wlo1 link'.
>
> I am wondering about the missing firmware stage. Had you not done the
> 'sudo make install' step, or did that step fail to install the firmware?
>
> Larry
>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-02 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-27  4:09 David R. Bergstein
2019-02-27 10:23 ` Tony Chuang
2019-03-01  2:32   ` David R. Bergstein
2019-03-01 17:28     ` Larry Finger
2019-03-01 22:26       ` David R. Bergstein
2019-03-02  1:46         ` Larry Finger
2019-03-02  2:55           ` David R. Bergstein
2019-03-02  3:16             ` David R. Bergstein
2019-03-02  3:52               ` David R. Bergstein
2019-03-02 10:03                 ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-03-04  2:34                   ` Tony Chuang
2019-03-02 17:58                 ` Larry Finger
2019-03-02 18:09                   ` David R. Bergstein [this message]
2019-03-02 18:39                     ` Larry Finger
2019-04-14 21:39               ` rtlwifi-new v0.6 and dkms failures David R. Bergstein
2019-04-16 21:19                 ` David R. Bergstein

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