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    • stephenw10
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

      Has anyone got the athp(4) driver running against a 2.5 snapshot? Or FreeBSD12?

      What hardware are you using if so?

      I have had several attempts to compile it but so far my lack of skilz is failing me! 😞
      https://github.com/Geramy/athp

      Steve

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      • kiokoman
        kiokoman LAYER 8 @stephenw10 last edited by kiokoman

        @stephenw10 i was able to compile it under freebsd 12 but modules does not load under pfsense, 2 problem arise for me: "if_athp.ko: depends on alq - not available or version mismatch", and firmware does not load : firmware_register: "cannot register image firmware table full!" <- this was probably my error nothing to do with pfsense.

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        • stephenw10
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

          Ah, well better than me! Maybe you could outline the steps you took so I can try to replicate.

          Is that trying to load the driver in FreeBSD12 or in pfSense 2.5?

          Steve

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          • kiokoman
            kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

            i found all the information here https://github.com/erikarn/athp/issues/11 and here https://github.com/Geramy/athp ,
            it compile and load under freebsd 12, but does not load under pfsense 2.5 so we also need to recompile pfsense from source but i still don't know how to do it.

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            • stephenw10
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

              Aha! New info there. Interesting, let me see if I can get some feedback on that...

              Steve

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              • kiokoman
                kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by kiokoman

                there is now compiled kernel with alq for pfsense 2.5 and modules if you want to test
                https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fM-Jlmf8BY21kIEGueSxFWmrISZqcDj3

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                • stephenw10
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                  Ooo fun! Can you not load alq as a module?

                  Bogged down in other testing right now but I will certaily do so when I can.

                  Steve

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                  • kiokoman
                    kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by kiokoman

                    i was unable to load it as a module, ... don't remember why / what kind of error it was, missing reference or something

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                    • stephenw10
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by stephenw10

                      I found the same. But once I had the modules in the correct locations...

                      athp0@pci0:4:0:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x003c168c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
                          vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
                          device     = 'QCA986x/988x 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter'
                          class      = network
                      
                      [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@apu.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig -v athp0_wlan0 
                      athp0_wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                      	ether 04:f0:21:28:af:bd
                      	inet6 fe80::6f0:21ff:fe28:afbd%athp0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb 
                      	groups: wlan 
                      	ssid "" channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g ht/40+) bssid 04:f0:21:28:af:bd
                      	regdomain FCC country US anywhere -ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn
                      	privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
                      	txpower 30 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346
                      	bmiss 7
                      	11a     ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	11b     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	11g     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	turboA  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	turboG  ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	sturbo  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	11na    ucast NONE    mgmt 12 MCS  mcast 12 MCS  maxretry 6
                      	11ng    ucast NONE    mgmt  2 MCS  mcast  2 MCS  maxretry 6
                      	half    ucast NONE    mgmt  3 Mb/s mcast  3 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	quarter ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	11acg   ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	11ac    ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                      	scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
                      	roam:11a     rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                      	roam:11b     rssi    7dBm rate  1 Mb/s
                      	roam:11g     rssi    7dBm rate  5 Mb/s
                      	roam:turboA  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                      	roam:turboG  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                      	roam:sturbo  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                      	roam:11na    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1    
                      	roam:11ng    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1    
                      	roam:half    rssi    7dBm rate  6 Mb/s
                      	roam:quarter rssi    7dBm rate  3 Mb/s
                      	roam:11acg   rssi    7dBm rate 64 Mb/s
                      	roam:11ac    rssi    7dBm rate 64 Mb/s
                      	-pureg protmode CTS ht htcompat ampdu ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
                      	amsdu shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren -smps -rifs stbc -ldpctx ldpcrx
                      	vht vht40 vht80 -vht80p80 -vht160 wme -burst -dwds -hidessid apbridge
                      	dtimperiod 1 doth -dfs inact bintval 100
                      	AC_BE cwmin  4 cwmax  6 aifs  3 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
                      	      cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  3 txopLimit   0 -acm
                      	AC_BK cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
                      	      cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm
                      	AC_VI cwmin  3 cwmax  4 aifs  1 txopLimit  94 -acm ack
                      	      cwmin  3 cwmax  4 aifs  2 txopLimit  94 -acm
                      	AC_VO cwmin  2 cwmax  3 aifs  1 txopLimit  47 -acm ack
                      	      cwmin  2 cwmax  3 aifs  2 txopLimit  47 -acm
                      	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap>
                      	status: running
                      	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
                      

                      Had an issue with the card initialising wrong. Seems to require warm boot in that box. Fun!

                      That's a Compex WLE600VX.

                      Steve

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                      • kiokoman
                        kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by kiokoman

                        there is no gui interface to configure wifi ssid for me so i have created a script
                        /root/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.conf

                        interface=athp0_wlan0
                        driver=bsd
                        logger_syslog=-1
                        logger_syslog_level=0
                        dump_file=/tmp/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.dump
                        ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd_wlan0
                        ctrl_interface_group=wheel
                        ssid=pfSense-5G
                        debug=
                        wpa=2
                        wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
                        wpa_pairwise=CCMP
                        wpa_group_rekey=3600
                        wpa_strict_rekey=
                        wpa_passphrase=yourpasswordhere

                        after this i created a script inside /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hostapd-5g.sh

                        #/bin/sh
                        /usr/local/sbin/hostapd -B -P /var/run/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.pid /root/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.conf

                        wifi go up and running at startup

                        did i understand correctly and you have only loaded the alq module +athp ? if so can you share the alq.ko ? sorry english is not my first language

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                        • stephenw10
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                          No I had to use the kernel with alq compiled in. It failed to load as a module as you found.

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                          • stephenw10
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                            What sort of speeds are you seeing? I definitely have something screwy here. I see link at 6Mbps!

                            Also if I enable WPA it all crashes out...

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                            • kiokoman
                              kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by kiokoman

                              i'm still working on it, when i go home i will check better but last time i saw it on my phone was at 144Mbps. you should ask Geramy he will surely help you with the crash and he will provide patch
                              Screenshot_20190515-223602_WiFiAnalyzer.jpg

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                              • kiokoman
                                kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

                                i can confirm you that i have 144Mbps on 2,4Ghz channel 11 ht40- mode 11ng, but if i change mode to 11a channel 161 i have only 54Mbps and i'm unable to use/activate 40Mhz width only 20Mhz.
                                ifconfig athp0_wlan0 channel 161:ht40- does nothing, no error messages and no 40Mhz

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                                • stephenw10
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                  Seems like it would have to be ifconfig athp0_wlan0 channel 161:ht/40- though I can't test that as 161 is not a channel available to me.

                                  It also seems like maybe ifconfig would need updating for ac options to use it that way... no vht mode.

                                  54Mbps beats me anyway. 😉

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                                  • stephenw10
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                    Mmm, maybe not it does appear to have vht vht40 and vht80 enabled:

                                    [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@apu.stevew.lan]/root: ifconfig -v athp0_wlan0 
                                    athp0_wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                                    	ether 04:f0:21:28:af:bd
                                    	inet6 fe80::6f0:21ff:fe28:afbd%athp0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb 
                                    	inet 192.168.36.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.36.255 
                                    	groups: wlan 
                                    	ssid AreaACnet channel 48 (5240 MHz 11a ht/40-) bssid 04:f0:21:28:af:bd
                                    	regdomain ETSI country GB anywhere -ecm authmode OPEN -wps -tsn
                                    	privacy OFF deftxkey UNDEF powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
                                    	txpower 17 txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346
                                    	bmiss 7
                                    	11a     ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	11b     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	11g     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	turboA  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	turboG  ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	sturbo  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	11na    ucast NONE    mgmt 12 MCS  mcast 12 MCS  maxretry 6
                                    	11ng    ucast NONE    mgmt  2 MCS  mcast  2 MCS  maxretry 6
                                    	half    ucast NONE    mgmt  3 Mb/s mcast  3 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	quarter ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	11acg   ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	11ac    ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                    	scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
                                    	roam:11a     rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                    	roam:11b     rssi    7dBm rate  1 Mb/s
                                    	roam:11g     rssi    7dBm rate  5 Mb/s
                                    	roam:turboA  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                    	roam:turboG  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                    	roam:sturbo  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                    	roam:11na    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1    
                                    	roam:11ng    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1    
                                    	roam:half    rssi    7dBm rate  6 Mb/s
                                    	roam:quarter rssi    7dBm rate  3 Mb/s
                                    	roam:11acg   rssi    7dBm rate 64 Mb/s
                                    	roam:11ac    rssi    7dBm rate 64 Mb/s
                                    	-pureg protmode OFF ht htcompat ampdu ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
                                    	amsdu shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren -smps -rifs stbc -ldpctx ldpcrx
                                    	vht vht40 vht80 -vht80p80 vht160 wme -burst -dwds -hidessid -apbridge
                                    	dtimperiod 1 doth -dfs inact bintval 100
                                    	AC_BE cwmin  4 cwmax  6 aifs  3 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
                                    	      cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  3 txopLimit   0 -acm
                                    	AC_BK cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
                                    	      cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm
                                    	AC_VI cwmin  3 cwmax  4 aifs  1 txopLimit  94 -acm ack
                                    	      cwmin  3 cwmax  4 aifs  2 txopLimit  94 -acm
                                    	AC_VO cwmin  2 cwmax  3 aifs  1 txopLimit  47 -acm ack
                                    	      cwmin  2 cwmax  3 aifs  2 txopLimit  47 -acm
                                    	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11na <hostap>
                                    	status: running
                                    	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
                                    

                                    My card pulls only the API 5 firmware. Not sure if that's intended...

                                    [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@apu.stevew.lan]/root: kldstat
                                    Id Refs Address                Size Name
                                     1   22 0xffffffff80200000  3124198 kernel
                                     2    1 0xffffffff83421000      fe0 cpuctl.ko
                                     3    1 0xffffffff83422000     2678 intpm.ko
                                     4    1 0xffffffff83425000      b10 smbus.ko
                                     5    1 0xffffffff83426000     3110 cryptodev.ko
                                     6    1 0xffffffff8342a000    8d728 if_athp.ko
                                     7    1 0xffffffff834b8000      a45 athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_board.bin.ko
                                     8    1 0xffffffff834b9000    3cb9f athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_firmware-5.bin.ko
                                    
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                                    • stephenw10
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                      Hmm, real throughput appears to be ~250Mbps so that 'rate' reported is not what I think it is...

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                                      • kiokoman
                                        kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

                                        [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig -v athp0_wlan0
                                        athp0_wlan0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                                                ether 00:0e:8e:5a:c6:f6
                                                inet6 fe80::20e:8eff:fe5a:c6f6%athp0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0xa
                                                groups: wlan
                                                ssid pfSense-5G channel 48 (5240 MHz 11a) bssid 00:00:00:00:00:00
                                                regdomain FCC country US anywhere -ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i -wps
                                                -tsn privacy MIXED deftxkey 2
                                                AES-CCM 2:128-bit powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 17
                                                txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7
                                                11a     ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                11b     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                11g     ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                turboA  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                turboG  ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                sturbo  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                11na    ucast NONE    mgmt 12 MCS  mcast 12 MCS  maxretry 6
                                                11ng    ucast NONE    mgmt  2 MCS  mcast  2 MCS  maxretry 6
                                                half    ucast NONE    mgmt  3 Mb/s mcast  3 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                quarter ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                11acg   ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                11ac    ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
                                                scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
                                                roam:11a     rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                                roam:11b     rssi    7dBm rate  1 Mb/s
                                                roam:11g     rssi    7dBm rate  5 Mb/s
                                                roam:turboA  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                                roam:turboG  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                                roam:sturbo  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
                                                roam:11na    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1
                                                roam:11ng    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1
                                                roam:half    rssi    7dBm rate  6 Mb/s
                                                roam:quarter rssi    7dBm rate  3 Mb/s
                                                roam:11acg   rssi    7dBm rate 64 Mb/s
                                                roam:11ac    rssi    7dBm rate 64 Mb/s
                                                -pureg protmode CTS ht htcompat ampdu ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8
                                                amsdu shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren -smps -rifs stbc -ldpctx ldpcrx
                                                vht vht40 vht80 -vht80p80 -vht160 wme -burst -dwds -hidessid apbridge
                                                dtimperiod 1 doth -dfs inact bintval 100
                                                AC_BE cwmin  4 cwmax  6 aifs  3 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
                                                      cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  3 txopLimit   0 -acm
                                                AC_BK cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm ack
                                                      cwmin  4 cwmax 10 aifs  7 txopLimit   0 -acm
                                                AC_VI cwmin  3 cwmax  4 aifs  1 txopLimit  94 -acm ack
                                                      cwmin  3 cwmax  4 aifs  2 txopLimit  94 -acm
                                                AC_VO cwmin  2 cwmax  3 aifs  1 txopLimit  47 -acm ack
                                                      cwmin  2 cwmax  3 aifs  2 txopLimit  47 -acm
                                                media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11a <hostap>
                                                status: no carrier
                                                nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
                                        
                                        
                                        [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig athp0_wlan0 list regdomain
                                        :regdomain FCC country US anywhere -ecm
                                        Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11b          Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11g
                                        Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11g          Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11g ht/20
                                        Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11g ht/40-
                                        Channel   1 : 2412      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11b
                                        Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11b          Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11g
                                        Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11g          Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11g ht/20
                                        Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  10 : 2457      MHz 11g ht/40-
                                        Channel   2 : 2417      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11b
                                        Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11b          Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11g
                                        Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11g          Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11g ht/20
                                        Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  11 : 2462      MHz 11g ht/40-
                                        Channel   3 : 2422      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  36 : 5180      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11b          Channel  36 : 5180      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11g          Channel  36 : 5180      MHz 11a ht/40+
                                        Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  40 : 5200      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   4 : 2427      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  40 : 5200      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11b          Channel  40 : 5200      MHz 11a ht/40-
                                        Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g          Channel  44 : 5220      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel  44 : 5220      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel  44 : 5220      MHz 11a ht/40+
                                        Channel   5 : 2432      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel  48 : 5240      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11b          Channel  48 : 5240      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g          Channel  48 : 5240      MHz 11a ht/40-
                                        Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel 149 : 5745      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel 149 : 5745      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   6 : 2437      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel 149 : 5745      MHz 11a ht/40+
                                        Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11b          Channel 153 : 5765      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g          Channel 153 : 5765      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel 153 : 5765      MHz 11a ht/40-
                                        Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g ht/40+   Channel 157 : 5785      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   7 : 2442      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel 157 : 5785      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11b          Channel 157 : 5785      MHz 11a ht/40+
                                        Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11g          Channel 161 : 5805      MHz 11a
                                        Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11g ht/20    Channel 161 : 5805      MHz 11a ht/20
                                        Channel   8 : 2447      MHz 11g ht/40-   Channel 161 : 5805      MHz 11a ht/40-
                                        Channel   9 : 2452      MHz 11b          Channel 165 : 5825*     MHz 11a
                                        
                                        

                                        ifconfig athp0_wlan0 channel 48:ht/40-
                                        ifconfig: SIOCS80211: invalid argument

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                                        • kiokoman
                                          kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by kiokoman

                                          nevermind, i see that you set 11na and i have 11a, after setting to 11na i can configure width to 40Mhz.
                                          thank you
                                          the problem for me was hostapd that as soon as i start it, it go back to 11a
                                          so i changed my script to set mode and channel with ifconfig and start hostapd with only wpa stuff inside config

                                          /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hostapd-5g.sh

                                          #/bin/sh
                                          ifconfig athp0_wlan0 mode 11na
                                          ifconfig athp0_wlan0 channel 48:ht/40-
                                          /usr/local/sbin/hostapd -B -P /var/run/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.pid /root/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.conf
                                          

                                          and inside /root/hostapd_athp_wlan0.conf

                                          interface=athp0_wlan0
                                          logger_syslog=-1
                                          logger_syslog_level=0
                                          dump_file=/tmp/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.dump
                                          ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd_wlan0
                                          ctrl_interface_group=wheel
                                          ssid=pfSense-5G
                                          beacon_int=100
                                          dtim_period=2
                                          max_num_sta=255
                                          rts_threshold=2347
                                          fragm_threshold=2346
                                          auth_algs=3
                                          wmm_enabled=1
                                          wme_enabled=1
                                          wpa=2
                                          wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
                                          wpa_pairwise=CCMP
                                          rsn_pairwise=CCMP
                                          wpa_group_rekey=3600
                                          wpa_passphrase=somepassword
                                          
                                          

                                          the problem was that i had channel=48:ht/40- before inside hostapd conf and starting it resulted in mode changed to 11a without 40 width
                                          now i have a 300Mpbs connection on my phone

                                          Screenshot_20190516-215107_Wi-Fi SweetSpots.jpg

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                                          • stephenw10
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                            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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                                            • kiokoman
                                              kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

                                              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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                                              • stephenw10
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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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                                                • kiokoman
                                                  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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                                                  • kiokoman
                                                    kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

                                                    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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                                                    • stephenw10
                                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                      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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                                                      • stephenw10
                                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                        @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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                                                        • kiokoman
                                                          kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

                                                          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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                                                          • stephenw10
                                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                            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!

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                                                            • kiokoman
                                                              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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                                                              • kiokoman
                                                                kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

                                                                @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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                                                                • stephenw10
                                                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

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

                                                                  Steve

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                                                                  • kiokoman
                                                                    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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                                                                    • stephenw10
                                                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                                      Aha, that was it, nice!

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                                                                      • stephenw10
                                                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

                                                                        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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                                                                        • kiokoman
                                                                          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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                                                                          • stephenw10
                                                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator 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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                                                                            • kiokoman
                                                                              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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                                                                              • stephenw10
                                                                                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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                                                                                • kiokoman
                                                                                  kiokoman LAYER 8 last edited by

                                                                                  nope, sorry can't find any changelog anywhere

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                                                                                  • stephenw10
                                                                                    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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