Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1444 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2021 19:20 Post subject:
The 3200 uses Atheros wifi tech.
Can you not just set the client-mode interface to the channel of he desired AP? That has always worked for me. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
Can you not just set the client-mode interface to the channel of he desired AP? That has always worked for me.
Unfortunately I'm using wlan0 [5GHz/802.11ac] to connect to this AP because 2.4 GHz doesn't detect it, and the only settings related to channels that I can change are the following:
According to the Site Survey, the AP I'm trying to connect to is using channel 149 and the rate is showing 1300(a/n/ac).
Is there a setting I should change?
ho1Aetoo wrote:
and the solution does not work?
Prior to SurprisedItWorks' post, I didn't know that the Linksys WRT3200ACM uses Atheros.
I found this Atheros solution but I don't know how safe it is to use and if it's even reversible:
Ameir Abdeldayem wrote:
In Administration -> Commands , save the following as a startup script (don’t forget to change the BSSID!).
Code:
bssid="AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"
until pidof "wpa_supplicant"; do
echo "waiting for wpa_supplicant to start..."
sleep 3
done
sed -i "3ibssid=$bssid" /tmp/ath0_wpa_supplicant.conf
kill -HUP $(pidof "wpa_supplicant")
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14125 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 16:51 Post subject:
Marvell doesn't use Atheros anything. The ATH naming of interfaces was a blind carryover, I suspect. There seems to be a lot of misinformation or misinterpreted information on this forum - which is probably why the wireless interfaces were renamed on both Marvell and Ralink/MediaTek.
Prior to SurprisedItWorks' post, I didn't know that the Linksys WRT3200ACM uses Atheros.
I found this Atheros solution but I don't know how safe it is to use and if it's even reversible:
Ameir Abdeldayem wrote:
In Administration -> Commands , save the following as a startup script (don’t forget to change the BSSID!).
Code:
bssid="AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"
until pidof "wpa_supplicant"; do
echo "waiting for wpa_supplicant to start..."
sleep 3
done
sed -i "3ibssid=$bssid" /tmp/ath0_wpa_supplicant.conf
kill -HUP $(pidof "wpa_supplicant")
Is it safe to use?
just try it out?
but I think he might insert the BSSID in the wrong place
also the script might cause problems when executed in WebIF (Tab > Administration > Command)
You can also try this script, it also works in the command box
Joined: 04 Aug 2018 Posts: 1444 Location: Appalachian mountains, USA
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 19:35 Post subject:
kernel-panic69 wrote:
Marvell doesn't use Atheros anything. The ATH naming of interfaces was a blind carryover, I suspect. There seems to be a lot of misinformation or misinterpreted information on this forum - which is probably why the wireless interfaces were renamed on both Marvell and Ralink/MediaTek.
You cannot change channels in Client modes that I am aware of. All you can do is try employing that script.
Many thanks for stepping in there. Hate to lead the new folks astray. I had to boot up my client-mode router to check re the channel, but of course you are quite right. My old neurons had forgotten since I last used that router in a multi-AP environment pre-pandemic!
And that's interesting re Atheros. I got taken in by all those years of our interfaces being ath0 and ath1. I knew they were Marvell chips, but I assumed some licensing thing. _________________ 2x Netgear XR500 and 3x Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 on 53544: VLANs, VAPs, NAS, station mode, OpenVPN client (AirVPN), wireguard server (AirVPN port forward) and clients (AzireVPN, AirVPN, private), 3 DNSCrypt providers via VPN.
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14125 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 20:20 Post subject:
Of course, no disrespect intended, sir. It just seems the Marvell folks want to ass-u-me things and I have mostly relented to letting them figure out their own misconceptions and why they have problems, especially with wifi.