Interface with Wireless Adapter Not Displaying Wireless Config Settings

[SilentJ]

I am attempting to install a wireless WAN to connect to my phone's hotspot as a failover for my ethernet WAN that is not always reliable. I installed an Intel AX210-based card into my box running 23.01-RELEASE which readily populated as iwlwifi in the "Parent Interface" dropdown in the Interfaces > Wireless > Wireless Interface Configuration screen. However, when I assigned this to a new Interface and went to configure it (Interfaces > WANwifi (formerly OPT7)) I see no wireless configuration settings.

The wifi card seems to be working as it connects to devices that don't require authentication (e.g., Google Speakers). In looking at the pciconf output, I notice that my wired adapters have a subclass ("subclass = ethernet") however, my wifi adapter does not have any subclass defined.

Should this adapter have a subclass defined (e.g. subclass = wireless (or something like that))? If so, is there a config file or something that I can edit to define this? If that is not the problem, what is the problem?

Thank you in advance for your help!

[stephenw10]

It's probably just too new to be seen as a wifi interface in pfSense.

It showed in Interfaces > Wireless though? You were able to create the _wlan0 interface from it.

If you run: ifconfig -vvm iwlwifi0_wlan0 does it return the expected wifi data?

Steve

[stephenw10]

Oh, it's this: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/master/src/etc/inc/globals.inc#L94

So, yeah, the interface type isn't in that list yet. Try adding iwlwifi to that and see if that shows the expected settings.

Steve

[SilentJ]

@stephenw10 That worked! Thank you for your help and expertise - I very much appreciate it.

[stephenw10]

Excelllent. I added a feature request for it: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14050