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 The utility iwconfig is obsolete and not exactly up to date with the 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 >
