WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck)

JonathanLee

@fireodo what displayed when you ran

sysctl -a | grep dev.ath.0.txantenna

sysctl -a | grep dev.ath.0.rxantenna

sysctl dev.ath

I am curious to see if yours uses 0 for both or 1 or 2 for the antenna. I am working on a mini pcie card that is working but some of my devices don't like the kitchen. Again, on the old AP they worked in the kitchen. I have been researching old posts and reading about PfSense, freeBSD Netgate docs, Netgate forum posts to find anything about commands and information on PfSense as an AP. I found it never enabled my second antenna but had one marked as 0 meaning used both and the other as 1. I assumed that it should transmit on one antenna and receive on the other.

The offsets between the timing and other software seems to be missing like diversity settings for me also.

fireodo

@JonathanLee said in WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck):

sysctl -a | grep dev.ath.0.txantenna

dev.ath.0.txantenna: 0

sysctl -a | grep dev.ath.0.rxantenna

dev.ath.0.rxantenna: 1

sysctl dev.ath

sysctl dev.ath.txt

EDIT:
From what I know is if the WiFi-Card has 2 slots for antennas that should be 0 or 1.
If there are 3 Antenna slots then it can be 0,1, or 2 ...

johnpoz

Why would you not just get an AP? Why go through all of this for shitty wifi. When you could pick up most likely a some cheap $20 AC wifi router and using it as an AP, shoot you could put dd-wrt or openwrt on it and have vlan support..

provels

@johnpoz Sometimes we do things just because we can!

johnpoz

@provels yeah get that. I might see it more if it was an actual viable solution. But best your going to get is N and when is router in optimal location for Wi-Fi coverage. And more than likely it’s going to be shit for stable - which sometimes you can overlook fast if it’s rock solid.

I just don’t get the point of this - let me see if I can get this crap setup to function??

For a few bucks you could have AC Wi-Fi rock solid stable and able to place the ap where it makes sense vs where my edge router is.

Good luck I guess. Getting say OpenWrt running on some hardware is because we can as well and that would actually have a productive outcome

provels

@johnpoz Why ask why?

fireodo

@provels

provels

That said, I just ordered a Compex WLE600VX in the hope that I live long enough that FreeBSD someday supports AC.

LOL, and I just saw the main thread here is almost 3 years old!

fireodo

@provels said in WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck):

I live long enough that FreeBSD someday supports AC.

I'm with you ...

fireodo

@provels said in WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck):

I just ordered a Compex WLE600NX

You can search for AR5BXB112 (thanks @stephenw10 ) that is also very good for experiments ...

JonathanLee

@johnpoz I do it because it's very educational from a code programing perspective. Plus it works great, the firewall now controls traffic at a more graingular level. I was amazed it worked this well. The GUI has no antenna options anymore fyi, the old PfSense version did.

https://m.facebook.com/DudeDadVlog/videos/couple-more-days-construction-were-always-almost-done-with-a-lot-of-things/3391960031077578/

JonathanLee

@provels three years old? It just needed a couple more days/years of programming and configuration to get it to run right.

JonathanLee

@fireodo will it run with the AR5BXB112??

fireodo

@JonathanLee said in WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck):

@fireodo will it run with the AR5BXB112??

Yepp - i have one in a Lab Enclosure (APU2C0 with pfsense+ 23.05.1) and it runs well ...

JonathanLee

@fireodo I am gonna order one too

provels

@fireodo Thanks, I have one of those (Apple), too! It will come out when the 600 gets here.

fireodo

@JonathanLee said in WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck):

I am gonna order one too

Happy testing & experimenting ...

johnpoz

@JonathanLee said in WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck):

Plus it works great

1 stream N is works great? Let’s just agree we have different standards for great ;)

JonathanLee

@johnpoz if we pretend AC doesn't exist

fireodo

@johnpoz said in WiFi suddenly gone (ath0 beacon stuck):

1 stream N is works great? Let’s just agree we have different standards for great ;)

You're right BUT ... let the people enjoy experimenting - I'm shure they dont use it in professional environment ...