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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
        last edited by

        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
          last edited by

          nope, sorry can't find any changelog anywhere

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Yeah I couldn't see anything either. Seems to be working OK though so no significant regression, at least not yet!

            Still seeing values in scans that cannot be correct in terms of channel or even the reported MAC. Some random data in there.

            Can't wait to try media VHT mode 11ac mediaopt hostap. Just need some way to actually apply it I guess. Fun!

            Steve

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Anyone running this in a current, 12.1-stable, snapshot?

              I tested the modules would load before upgrading and was surprised to find they did. But doesn't actually load the with the hardware in place.

              I guess it's new modules time.

              Steve

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              • kiokomanK
                kiokoman LAYER 8
                last edited by

                not anymore, I have virtualized everything on ESXi and added a Ubiquiti ap-ac-pro, for me it was too unstable.
                but I have modules compiled for FreeBSD 12.1 if you want to try
                https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fM-Jlmf8BY21kIEGueSxFWmrISZqcDj3
                there is a folder athp-12.1

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                • kiokomanK
                  kiokoman LAYER 8
                  last edited by kiokoman

                  nice

                  Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (d/b/a "Netgate")

                  Co-authored-by: Bjoern A. Zeeb bz@FreeBSD.ORG.

                  we had to wait for netgate to chime in before something get done

                  thumb up for netgate and bzfbd

                  but idk when we can take advantage of the patches, that drivers are intended to be built against FreeBSD 13

                  maybe with pfsense 2.6 ? 😂

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Ooo, nice I'll give them a go.
                    It's weird I'm seeing that firmware table full error that others reported before. It's been so long since I set this up initially I've forgotten exactly how I got past it. The notes I made that seemed sufficient at the time suddenly look woefully inadequate! 🙄

                    Steve

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Looks like current snaps are loading more firmware by default. Standby....

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        And we're back...
                        Firmware limit removed in current snaps.

                        Steve

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                        • kiokomanK
                          kiokoman LAYER 8
                          last edited by

                          ah it was #define FIRMWARE_MAX right?

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Yup. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/7dfd7b3b1a033dac9d594cdec23d2f82b84fa39d

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                              Gektor @kiokoman
                              last edited by Gektor

                              @kiokoman
                              Can you add, please, firmware (with board-2.bin) for QCA9984/hw1.0 on FreeBSD 12.1?

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                I'm not sure that is supported at all yet. What's the PCI-ID?

                                https://github.com/erikarn/athp/blob/master/otus/freebsd/src/sys/dev/athp/if_athp_pci.c#L126

                                Steve

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                                  Gektor @stephenw10
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10
                                  0x168c 0x0046 0x168c 0xcafe 0 0 "Qualcomm Atheros" "QCA9984"

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Yeah not in the code so the driver would not attach to that yet.

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                                      _rp @stephenw10
                                      last edited by _rp

                                      Hey, I also have a Compex WLE600VX card installed in my pFsense with 2.5.0 Dev installed, the card I understand is a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9882 based card. I'm running the latest snapshot from yesterday.

                                      Can anyone summarise what I need to do to make use of this card please, it's currently not showing in the device list in the GUI.

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                                      • GertjanG
                                        Gertjan @_rp
                                        last edited by

                                        @romprod said in Athp driver:

                                        it's currently not showing in the device list in the GUI.

                                        GUI ?
                                        The dialogue from @kiokoman and @stephenw10 above is "command line world only". Wifi na and ac settings in the GUI, that silence fiction right now.
                                        Be ready to compile your own device drivers etc .
                                        IMHO, it implies also far more knowledge then just typing 'make' in the top of a source tree.
                                        It's also "2.5.0" ....

                                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                          _rp
                                          last edited by

                                          I'm born ready!

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                                          • kiokomanK
                                            kiokoman LAYER 8
                                            last edited by kiokoman

                                            you need to build the driver, there are instructions here
                                            https://github.com/Geramy/athp
                                            2.5.0 is now freebsd 12.2 so you need to download freebsd 12.2 and compile the driver.
                                            you can't compile inside pfsense so you need a virtual machine or something to do the work.
                                            after that upload stuff to /boot/kernel/
                                            cross your fingers and hope it works,if it work and the driver attach you can configure it using the gui

                                            last time i checked

                                            you need to

                                            git clone https://github.com/Geramy/athp/tree/NEW_ATHP_ARVIF_LOCK
                                            

                                            and not the one from erikarn, it does not build on freebsd12 but only on freebsd13

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