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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      Mmm, yeah it's connecting at 300Mbps at 802.11n. Which is as good as it gets for a 2x2 device. So that's good!

      Room for improvement! 😀

      Steve

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      • kiokomanK
        kiokoman LAYER 8
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        nonSense 12-RELEASE-p4 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fM-Jlmf8BY21kIEGueSxFWmrISZqcDj3
        as before i had to add ALQ and increse #define FIRMWARE_MAX because i had "firmware table full!" followed by kernel panic

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        • stephenw10S
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          Anything else changed in there? Just updated?

          Not really sure what is required to put this into 802.11ac mode. It seems like that would ahve to be set via ifconfig and perhaps that part is missing at this point...

          Steve

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          • kiokomanK
            kiokoman LAYER 8
            last edited by kiokoman

            i just recopiled the pfsense kernel because there was an update on the kernel but nothing to do with wifi in general

            idk where that part is missing on the ath10k driver or kernel

            [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig athp0_wlan0 mode 11g
[2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig athp0_wlan0 mode 11a
[2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig athp0_wlan0 mode 11b
[2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig athp0_wlan0 mode 11g
[2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig athp0_wlan0 mode 11na
[2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig athp0_wlan0 mode 11ac
ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Invalid argument

            sadly, for sure nothing will come out of it in the next few days

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            • kiokomanK
              kiokoman LAYER 8
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              https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/9538

              "ALQ added to all pfSense kernels"

              good news, at least we don't need to recompile nonSense kernel anymore, we just need the modules

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                Yup, there was some other stuff being added, seemed like a good time. Just using the modules will be waaay easier.

                However I'm not sure the max firmware size increase has been included yet. That has potential to affect far more things so it was being investigated last I heard.

                Steve

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  @kiokoman said in Athp driver:

                  FIRMWARE_MAX

                  What value did you end up using for that? Is it possible to allow the firmware to be loaded there by not loading other unused firmwares perhaps?

                  Steve

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                  • kiokomanK
                    kiokoman LAYER 8
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                    yes, i understand that, but i have 2 atheros mini pci express card, 1 for 2.4Ghz that use ath9k that work without problem and one QCA988X for the 5Ghz.
                    i set FIRMWARE_MAX to 100 but i put a random value, default was 50 if I remember correctly.

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                    • stephenw10S
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                      Yes I have two cards in there also. 😉

                      But it would be a useful test. I was referring to some of the other stuff like the Broadcom and Chelsio firmwares. I've never tried to check what is loaded there by default though. More research needed!

                      Steve

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                      • kiokomanK
                        kiokoman LAYER 8
                        last edited by kiokoman

                        i am now on official kernel, after the introduction of ALQ, and that problem did not come out again/i don't need to modify firmware_max anymore.
                        also i changed my 4 lan network card from realtek to intel i350-t4. i had too many trouble from realtek.
                        so now i don't need to load if_re.ko anymore, maybe that helped.

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                        • kiokomanK
                          kiokoman LAYER 8
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                          @stephenw10 i'm trying to understand why the athp0 is not recognized as a wireless interface in the gui,
                          i track down the problem to this file: /usr/local/www/interfaces_assign.php at line 209 where it say

                          if (preg_match($g['wireless_regex'], $_POST['if_add'])) {
			$config['interfaces'][$newifname]['wireless'] = array();
			interface_sync_wireless_clones($config['interfaces'][$newifname], false);
		}

                          it should save the interface inside a 'wireless' array but it doesn't do it, it save it inside a "enable" array

                          i put a print_r($config); inside the php

                          [opt5] => Array ( [descr] => WIFI5G [if] => athp0_wlan0 [enable] => [spoofmac] => [ipaddr] => ....
                          vs
                          [opt3] => Array ( [descr] => WIFI [if] => ath0_wlan0 [wireless] => Array ( [mode] => hostap [standard] =>....

                          from what i understand, the 'wireless' tag is readed when you go to configure the interface
                          i'm too tired now to go on, i will check further tomorrow, if you have any idea let me know

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                          • stephenw10S
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                            Yeah I'll have to re-check tomorrow too. I'm pretty sure I found that previously though.... 🤔

                            Steve

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                            • kiokomanK
                              kiokoman LAYER 8
                              last edited by kiokoman

                              found something new inside interfaces_assign.php

                              if (preg_match($g['wireless_regex'] =>

                              /^(ath|bwi|bwn|ipw|iwi|iwm|iwn|malo|mwl|ral|rsu|rum|run|uath|upgt|ural|urtw|urtwn|wi|wpi|wtap|zyd)[0-9]
                              athp does not match preg_match, now i need to find out where this is defined ...

                              found it
                              /etc/inc/globals.inc
                              need to add athp

                              "wireless_regex" => "/^(ath|bwi|bwn|ipw|iwi|iwm|iwn|malo|mwl|ral|rsu|rum|run|uath|upgt|ural|urtw|urtwn|wi|wpi|wtap|zyd|athp)[0-9]+/",

                              after adding it, you need to delete and re-add the interface

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Aha, that was it, nice!

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                  Hmm, I kinda lost track of where we are with this.

                                  I have two ath10k NICs in my test box and they load up OK across 2.5 updates. I have some kernel modules in there but they are waaay old at this point. The only line required, seemingly, is if_athp_load="yes" in loader.conf(.local). It seems to pull in the required firmware modules without explicitly loading them:

                                  [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@apu.stevew.lan]/root: kldstat
Id Refs Address                Size Name
 1   22 0xffffffff80200000  3123108 kernel
 2    1 0xffffffff83324000    d42f8 if_athp.ko
 3    1 0xffffffff83621000      a45 athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_board.bin.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff83622000    3cb9f athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_firmware-5.bin.ko
 5    1 0xffffffff8365f000      fe0 cpuctl.ko
 6    1 0xffffffff83660000     2678 intpm.ko
 7    1 0xffffffff83663000      b10 smbus.ko
 8    1 0xffffffff83664000     3110 cryptodev.ko

                                  [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@apu.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl net.wlan.devices
net.wlan.devices: athp1 athp0

                                  I don't see any sort of driver version listed in a sysctl.

                                  I do see it trying and failing to load this:

                                  athp0: ath10k_fetch_fw_file: firmware_get: athp_cal-pci-athp0.bin
athp_cal-pci-athp0.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2

                                  Steve

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                                  • kiokomanK
                                    kiokoman LAYER 8
                                    last edited by kiokoman

                                    hi steve,
                                    athp_cal-pci-athp0.bin
                                    this is a firmware for calibration, not used/needed by us. I found it month ago and searched on google for what it was.

                                    the only file we need to load are the one already present in your kldstat

                                    the only thing that if_athp.ko do is to load the correct firmware for the card, in your case
                                    athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_board.bin.ko and athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_firmware-5.bin.ko

                                    also i found that if you remove *firmware-5.bin.ko then firmware-4.bin.ko will be loaded.
                                    if you remove *5.bin.ko and 4.bin.ko then *3.bin.ko will be loaded and so on

                                    i found somewhere a discussion talking about the difference of this firmware but the only thing that i rember now is that firmware-2 should be idea for AP mode. i tried all of them and saw no difference

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                                    • stephenw10S
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                                      last edited by stephenw10

                                      Ah, interesting. Looks like the modules I have are dated May 14th, they must still be those you compiled.

                                      I'll try to update.

                                      Steve

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                                      • kiokomanK
                                        kiokoman LAYER 8
                                        last edited by kiokoman

                                        there is nothing new from Geramy or Adrian, the last commit is 7 feb
                                        but here is the new firmware i found
                                        10.2.4.70.70.zip
                                        from kvalo/ath10k-firmware

                                        content of athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_firmware-5.bin.ko

                                        ^?ELF^B^A^A 
......
^@QCA-ATH10K^@w^@^@^@^@^L^@^@^@10.2.4.70.70^A^@^@^@^D^@
......

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                          Seems good:

                                          athp1: qca988x hw2.0 (0x4100016c, 0x043202ff) fw 10.2.4.70.70 api 5 htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 5 htt-op 2 cal otp max-sta 128 raw 0 hwcrypto 1 features no-p2p,bit10

                                          Be nice if there was some change log. 2.5 years between those versions from what I can see.

                                          Steve

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                                          • kiokomanK
                                            kiokoman LAYER 8
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                                            nope, sorry can't find any changelog anywhere

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