Re: Realtek r8822be kernel module does not negotiate 802.11ac connection

[David R. Bergstein]

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
>> wlo1ÂÂÂÂÂ IEEE 802.11Â ESSID:"XXXXXXXXXX-5G"
>>  Mode:Managed Frequency:5.22 GHz Access Point:
>> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Bit Rate=6.5 Mb/sÂÂ Tx-Power=23 dBm
>> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Retry short limit:7ÂÂ RTS thr:offÂÂ Fragment thr:off
>> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Power Management:on
>> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Link Quality=70/70Â Signal level=-40 dBm
>> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Rx invalid nwid:0Â Rx invalid crypt:0Â Rx invalid frag:0
>> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ Tx excessive retries:0Â Invalid misc:11ÂÂ 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 The utility iwconfig is obsolete and not exactly up to date with the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
>