On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 09:19 +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote: > > Hi, > > I think that to enable wider channels there must be explicit > configuration in wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager is not passing > that > configuration (for example, parameters "ht40", "max_oper_chwidth", > "vht_center_freq1") because it's not clear it would work for > everybody; I mean, the hotspot functionality wouldn't be able to > start if NM sets e.g. ht40=1 and the card doesn't support it, or the > channels are wrong. > > Please see this NetworkManager issue: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1243 > > One approach would be to make the channel width configurable in > NetworkManager, so that it can send the appropriate parameters to > wpa_supplicant. > > Or, if there is way for NM to detect the best parameters > automatically, that would be even better; but I'm not sure if this is > possible. Thanks, that's exactly the right issue on NM side. My thread opener here was looking for how to get wpa_supplicant to automatically do more. Looks like as we're heading into 2.11, such still won't be the available. "hostapd doesn't have DBus" - unlucky! Probably an even bigger project than getting wpa_supplicant upgraded? So that might leave us with NetworkManager as the fastest way forward: * could NM expose more "custom configuration" options? I doesn't have to bear the full autoconfiguration burdain, and risk getting things wrong. * can wpa_supplicant run a DBus configuration + custom enhancements in /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.conf? _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
