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Tiny Core 14.0 Alpha 1 Testing
curaga:
No, I don't think any wifi-related config changed. Wifi drivers (among with graphics) do often have bugs though.
GNUser:
I am able to create a working 5 GHz 802.11n AP. The problem is with 802.11ac.
Thanks for that, curaga. Any troubleshooting ideas? I'd like to upgrade the router if possible, but not at the expense of my nice 802.11ac AP.
GNUser:
Crash seems to happen as soon as a device authenticates, suggesting a regression in wireless authentication/encryption.
So I tinkered some more and discovered that, indeed, there's no problem if using 802.11ac with WPA1. When using 802.11ac with WPA2, certain encryption algorithms (including what I've been using for years) now cause router to immediately become unresponsive when first client authenticates.
For 802.11ac and WPA2, these settings seem to work just fine (just relevant lines from hostapd.conf are shown):
--- Code: ---driver=nl80211
country_code=US
channel=36
hw_mode=a
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=SecRetPasswOrd
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
--- End code ---
I realize that this is a very specific and very small regression, probably not affecting too many users. Sorry for the noise.
I'm very happy to be able to move past this and upgrade the router to TCL14-alpha1 :)
GNUser:
No joy. Changing the encryption options lowers speed considerably.
- TCL13.1 with old hostapd.conf: link speed = 433 Mbps, speedtest.net download speed = 120 Mbps
- TCL14 with modified hostapd.conf: link speed = 54 Mbps, speedtest.net download speed = 20 Mbps (or use old hostapd.conf with the new kernel and be subject to immediate system crash when a wireless client authenticates).
The wireless device that creates my AP is the ALFA AWUS036ACHM, which uses mt7610u chipset. The kernel panic when using linux kernel 6.1.x and this chipset is a known issue, for which a kernel patch exists:
https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/issues/168
@curaga - Would it be possible to include this kernel patch in TCL14 release? This chipset is supposedly one of the superstar chipsets with best linux support (see https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/The_Short_List.md), so others who power their wireless router with TCL would also benefit from this patch.
Rich:
Hi GNUser
Gnumeric and any other extensions that had incorrect tce.installed permissions
have been corrected and new md5.txt files were generated.
Update your extensions and see if things act normally now.
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