Configuring WiFi6 in hostapd

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2020-09-11 at 20:37 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> > [  228.315290] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00002078 | ADVANCED_SYSASSERT
> > [  228.315294] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00A0A200 | trm_hw_status0
> > [  228.315297] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000000 | trm_hw_status1
> > [  228.315300] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x004F8E3C | branchlink2
> > [  228.315303] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x004E4FF4 | interruptlink1
> > [  228.315307] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x004E4FF4 | interruptlink2
> > [  228.315310] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x07000101 | data1
> > [  228.315313] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x48308403 | data2
> > [  228.315316] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 0x00000005 | data3

This means that we got an invalid TX rate, notably an HE rate was
requested/configured on a MAC configuration that didn't have HE.

I think I saw some patches in this area (configuring the MAC to be HE)
fly by internally recently, but not sure... Luca probably knows.

johannes