Wifi Card TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 issues

MrMatthew

Hello,

I have the wifi card TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/hardware.html#wlan which is supported in the Freebsd 10.x versions. When I try to assing an interface the card is not being detected. when I log in and run pciconf -lv it shows the following

none3@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x3112168c chip=0x0030168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
Vendor = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
device = 'AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter
class = network

I went looking online and found to add the following lines to /boot/loader.conf

if_ath_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"

but I still can not see/assign an interface to this device. Am I missing something?
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

jimp

They must have changed the chip used in that model ("name" brands are awful about that), the chip you have there is apparently not supported.

We have all of the necessary options in the kernel.

Soyokaze

According to https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207445 (same pciid) it works in 10 (ie - should be at least recognized).
Maybe there is something useful in boot log?

jimp

The person reporting that bug said it worked on 11-CURRENT in January and was broken shortly after. No mention of 10.

There isn't anything to do with it – hold onto it until pfSense 2.4-RELEASE in the next few months and see if it works once we are on a FreeBSD 11 base, but given that the bug is still open and unresolved I wouldn't hold out much hope.

bobgoblin

Ok. Thank you jimp. I will wait till 2.4 release.

Soyokaze

@jimp:

The person reporting that bug said it worked on 11-CURRENT in January and was broken shortly after. No mention of 10.

Oh, somehow missed that.

In https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=70575.0#msg_387255 there is a report about it working in 10, but at same time - link to http://adrianchadd.blogspot.ru/2013/03/ar9380-support-on-freebsd-why-its-taken.html
So, it should be at least detected in 2.3 as wifi card. Are you sure it really works? Maybe it should be pushed to PCI slot a little harder. :D

jimp

In older versions of pfSense we had included a newer wireless stack, but it was crashing on 2.3 when we tried, so we had to roll back.

Waiting for 2.4 is one answer, getting a real AP is the better answer. There is nothing else to do.