Athp driver
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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.confand 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=somepasswordthe 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
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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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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 -
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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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 argumentsadly, for sure nothing will come out of it in the next few days
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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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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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@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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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. -
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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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.
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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 sayif (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($config); inside the php
[opt5] => Array ( [descr] => WIFI5G [if] => athp0_wlan0 [enable] => [spoofmac] => [ipaddr] => ....
vs
[opt3] => Array ( [descr] => WIFI [if] => ath0_wlan0 [wireless] => Array ( [mode] => hostap [standard] =>....from what i understand, the 'wireless' tag is readed when you go to configure the interface
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Yeah I'll have to re-check tomorrow too. I'm pretty sure I found that previously though....
Steve
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found something new inside interfaces_assign.php
if (preg_match($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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Aha, that was it, nice!
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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 athp0I 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 2Steve
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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.koalso 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 oni 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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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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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-firmwarecontent of athp_QCA988X_hw2.0_firmware-5.bin.ko
^?ELF^B^A^A ...... ^@QCA-ATH10K^@w^@^@^@^@^L^@^@^@10.2.4.70.70^A^@^@^@^D^@ ...... -
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,bit10Be nice if there was some change log. 2.5 years between those versions from what I can see.
Steve
