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.