Hostapd and wifi 6e

OCTEON CN9130
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Hey there, today I came across your post while trying to set up a 6GHz AP on a NetGear A8000.

Actually the HE PHY Capabilities showing no 6GHz seems to not really be relevant here.
I think you are just missing the op_class setting from your hostapd conf.

I am not done with testing but the following config snipped seems to successfully create a 6 GHz AP:

hw_mode=a
channel=57
ieee80211ax=1
wmm_enabled=1
op_class=131
ieee80211w=2
auth_algs=1
wpa=2
sae_password=password
wpa_key_mgmt=SAE
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

Note: You have to compile hostapd with CONFIG_SAE=y and you need wpa_key_mgmt=SAE because otherwise you will get the error Management frame protection is required in 6 GHz or Invalid AKM suite for 6 GHz.

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