Atheros wireless card not broadcasting SSID

[johnpoz]

@henry-nicolas said in Atheros wireless card not broadcasting SSID:

WiFi-2.4-R2D2-Guest

You mean that SSID?

Is this correct for you location
regdomain ETSI country BE

I never understand why anyone would want to use some shit card for their AP, especially with a os (freebsd) that very lacking wifi support..

Your money would of been better spent on just getting some old wifi router to use as AP, or an actual real AP.

[henry-nicolas]

Yes, that's the SSID that I was referring to.

For the location, country code is correct (BElgium, which is in Europe), ETSI I don't know, that option is set to default.

[johnpoz]

That is EU code for regdomain.

So what does the gui show for the interface under the wireless section?

[henry-nicolas]

see hereunder the screenshots

[johnpoz]

So did you try change regdomain from other than default?

[henry-nicolas]

No, I didn't. There are 3 ETSI options, should I try each of these?

FCC I believe that's for the US and the rest is APAC/Korea/ROW/JAPAN so I guess not of any use in my case.

[johnpoz]

@henry-nicolas said in Atheros wireless card not broadcasting SSID:

There are 3 ETSI options

Huh? 3 of them ? BE is ETSI that is for sure..

[henry-nicolas]

Yes, there are three different ETSI, see below screenshot:

[johnpoz]

that is new to me - but sure couldn't hurt could it ;)

[henry-nicolas]

Ok I just tried all possible ETSI combination and gave up, I bought a separate Ubiquiti access point and will put OpenWRT on it.

Thanks for providing some feedback anyway :)

[johnpoz]

@henry-nicolas said in Atheros wireless card not broadcasting SSID:

I bought a separate Ubiquiti access point and will put OpenWRT on it.

Ok - seems unnecessary if you ask me... Their firmware works..

[stephenw10]

@henry-nicolas said in Atheros wireless card not broadcasting SSID:

WiFi-2.4-R2D2-Guest

Mmm, I would try an SSID that is much more basic if you ever re-visit that. I'm not aware of any issue with SSIDs like that but I've also never tried to use one.
No errors in the logs, wireless or system, when you apply that config?

Steve

[stephenw10]

Hmm, though my card here works fine with all the settings you had. Maybe a firmware issue?

Steve

[kiokoman]

well if anyone is wondering
etsi 2 -> <!-- ETSI w/o HT40 in 5GHz -->
etsi 3 -> <!-- ETSI minus channel 36 -->
there are probably some place in eu where u can't use HT40 or channel 36
in any case they are commented inside /etc/regdomain.xml

idk but i think you need to enable WPA to use 802.11n and i never used the "outdoor" settings. You probably had the interface up but hostapd is not starting for some misconfiguration, the SSID should not be a problem couse i have something very similar and i don't have any problem with it