ASUS RT-BE96U and "Environment: bogus"

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I recently updated my laptop from PopOS 22.04 to 24.04 and since then, I've been struggling to get Wifi 5, 6, or 6E working. I had no trouble under 22.04 with the wifi, though I did have other problems which is why I upgraded. Apparently the Intel iwlwifi driver cares a lot more about frequencies and regulatory regions than it did before. The laptop is a System76 addw3 with an Intel AX211 wifi chip in it. I managed to get the driver on my side working, but now I'm still struggling because of the ASUS router and Copilot identifies as an issue with the RT-BE96U firmware, which I'm not sure I believe.

I'm running ASUS Merlin 3006.102.6 on my RT-BE96U, which appears to be the latest version and was just released a couple of months ago. When I do a iw dev wlp0s20f3 scan | grep -A5 myssid on my laptop, I see this returned:

root@pop-os:~# iw dev wlp0s20f3 scan | grep -A5 myssid
    SSID: myssid
    Supported rates: 1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* 18.0 24.0 36.0 54.0
    DS Parameter set: channel 6
    Country: US    Environment: Indoor/Outdoor
        Channels [1 - 11] @ 30 dBm
    Power constraint: 0 dB
--
    SSID: myssid_5G
    Supported rates: 6.0* 9.0 12.0* 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0
    Country: US    Environment: bogus
        Channels [36 - 48] @ 30 dBm
        Channels [52 - 64] @ 24 dBm
        Channels [100 - 144] @ 24 dBm
--
    SSID: myssid_6G
    Supported rates: 6.0* 9.0 12.0* 18.0 24.0* 36.0 48.0 54.0
    TIM: DTIM Count 0 DTIM Period 1 Bitmap Control 0x0 Bitmap[0] 0x0
    Country: US    Environment: bogus
        Extension ID: 254 Regulatory Class: 131 Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)
        Extension ID: 254 Regulatory Class: 132 Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)

Apparently, the "Environment: bogus" is causing the network not to be detected properly.

I'm able to work around it by forcing Wifi 5 and Wifi 6 networks to 160 MHz and hard-coding the PSC channel (keep in mind I have no idea what PSC or DFS means), but I'd like to use the 320 MHz for my Meta Quest 3.

What is the "Environment:" thing for anyway? Is there a way for me to set it to "Indoor" like my 2.4GHz network?

 

[OzarkEdge]

I'm out of my depth here...

AI (is intel ax211 compatible with ubuntu 24.04?): ... users often report issues like driver failures (error -110), connectivity drops, and instability, especially with newer kernels or specific BIOS settings, requiring firmware updates or workarounds for the iwlwifi driver, so compatibility isn't always seamless and might need troubleshooting.

AI suggests to check dmesg: Use dmesg | grep iwlwifi to look for error messages.

OE

 

[LikeLikeAteMySword]

Yeah I heavily relied on Copilot to get me to the point that the card would detect the 6 GHz network at all, but it's insisting that it's some sort of Atheros firmware bug, and I have my doubts.