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16.1 Legacy Series / ATH Card not recognized as WLAN interface
« on: February 02, 2016, 10:07:28 pm »
I am running OPNsense 16.1-i386 on an Alix with two ATH cards, a Wistron DCMA81, and a Compex WLM200NX. However, OPNsense does not recognize the DCMA81 card as a WLAN interface (i.e., it does not allow me to enter the WLAN-specific information for the interface), and also the WLM200NX card it seemed to recognize as a WLAN interface only after cloning it once (although I deleted the clone again, and it still shows up as a WLAN interface, which is good, rebooting it in-between might also have helped). But nothing I tried has made it recognize the DCMA81 as a WLAN interface. So my question is, whether there is anything I can do to have it recognize the DCMA81 card also as a WLAN interface?
Somewhat related, it also seems that if I want to use a card as an access point (i.e., in hostap mode), I need to add the additional interface pointing to ath?_wlan0. The ath? interface itself (if it is recognized as a WLAN interface), only allows infrastructure (BSS) mode. Is that as intended?
Please let me know if you need any additional information on my setup.
Somewhat related, it also seems that if I want to use a card as an access point (i.e., in hostap mode), I need to add the additional interface pointing to ath?_wlan0. The ath? interface itself (if it is recognized as a WLAN interface), only allows infrastructure (BSS) mode. Is that as intended?
Please let me know if you need any additional information on my setup.