Atheros AR9280 support

[mpompeia]

Hi,

I've got a Compex WLE200NX (Atheros 9280) that although it seems to be recognised, is not showing up as parent interface.

root@gw01:~ # dmesg | grep Atheros
ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe800000-0xfe80ffff at device 0.0 on pci4

Thanks for your help!

[tillsense]

I can confirm that. The WLE200NX ran until 16.7.7 perfectly but under 17.1 it is currently not activatable.

OPNsense 17.1.a_736-amd64
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p2
OpenSSL 1.0.2j 26 Sep 2016

cheers till

[lattera]

FreeBSD overhauled the wireless stack in 11.0. With 17.1 being based on FreeBSD 11.0, additional work is planned to support wireless. Don't fret: we know about the issue. We just gotta do a little extra work to support the wireless stack overhaul.

[Solaris17]

Awesome! really like work on the wireless. Glad to see you in colors Lattera! was always a huge fan of the hardenedBSD builds!

[mpompeia]

Thanks for your answers!

In that case would it be ok to downgrade, considering it's a pcengines alu2?

Cheers,
Manu

[franco]

Hi Manu,

APU2 may need an USB fix, but you can use 16.7, sure.

See:

https://github.com/opnsense/tools/issues/28


Cheers,
Franco

[mpompeia]

I ended up using a tiny core usb and installed the 16.7 directly on the sdd using the nano install.

Everything seems to be working as expected :)

Cheers,
Manu

[tillsense]

Hi Manu,

APU2 may need an USB fix, but you can use 16.7, sure.

See:

https://github.com/opnsense/tools/issues/28


Cheers,
Franco

hi franco,

i don't understand this. i can 16.7-serial-amd64.img with every usb stick install on apu2?

cheers till

[franco]

Hi Till,

Sometimes APU won't find the root file system, the fix described in the ticket is needed. If it works without it, that's fine, too.


Cheers,
Franco