Athp driver
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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/athpSteve
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@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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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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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. -
Aha! New info there. Interesting, let me see if I can get some feedback on that...
Steve
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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 -
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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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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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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there is no gui interface to configure wifi ssid for me so i have created a script
/root/hostapd_athp0_wlan0.confinterface=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=yourpasswordhereafter 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.confwifi 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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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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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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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
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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 -
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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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 -
Hmm, real throughput appears to be ~250Mbps so that 'rate' reported is not what I think it is...
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[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 11aifconfig athp0_wlan0 channel 48:ht/40-
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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
