Adding a tp-link wireless pcie card ac1900

[Spiffy]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to add a pcie card to my pfsense hardware, the whole thing sits on an AMD platform with athlon CPU.

I'm not sure if the system is even detecting the card, I don't see it as an interface in wireless

This is the card: https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-Archer-T9E-Beamforming-Low-profile/dp/B00TQEX7AQ

This is a readable pciconf:

none1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x061914e4 chip=0x43a014e4 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
    vendor    = 'Broadcom Corporation'
    device    = 'BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = network
    bar  [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xfd3f8000, size 32768, enabled
    bar  [18] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xfd000000, size 2097152, enabled
    cap 01[48] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
    cap 05[58] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
    cap 09[68] = vendor (length 68)
    cap 10[ac] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(256) RO NS link x1(x1)
                speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM disabled(L0s/L1)
    ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected
    ecap 0003[13c] = Serial 1 ec0800ffff000000
    ecap 0004[150] = Power Budgeting 1
    ecap 0002[160] = VC 1 max VC0
    ecap 0018[1b0] = LTR 1
    ecap 0015[220] = Resizable BAR 1

UPDATE:
Initially I wasn't able to find the card, but here it is…

Anyone have an advice for me on why it is not showing up in wireless?

Thanks.

[Nullity]

FreeBSD does not support 802.11ac.

Whether it can run in 802.11n mode or maybe it is completely unsupported, I don't know.

[kklouzal]

I purchased the exact same card a while back when I got all new hardware to build a state of the art PF box. Should have done my homework beforehand. Now I wait with the card in the PCIe slot, checking every couple months for a new update to pfsense/FreeBSD that brings AC1900 support! T_T

Unfortunately the idea around here is 'wireless sucks, get an AP'

[Nullity]

@kklouzal:

I purchased the exact same card a while back when I got all new hardware to build a state of the art PF box. Should have done my homework beforehand. Now I wait with the card in the PCIe slot, checking every couple months for a new update to pfsense/FreeBSD that brings AC1900 support! T_T

Unfortunately the idea around here is 'wireless sucks, get an AP'

Yeah… WiFi tends to require proprietary drivers unavailable to FreeBSD.