Re: [Bug 255337] ath(4): Atheros AR9462 identified correctly but does not function

You gentlemen probably have better things to do in Ottawa but I was serious about bringing the laptop if anyone’s interested in poking at it. Let me know! :)

> On Apr 26, 2023, at 1:14 PM, bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote:
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> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=255337
> 
> John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> changed:
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> --- Comment #4 from John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> ---
> I have this problem as well on a Dell laptop. Same behavior on 12.3, 12.4,
> 13.1, 13.2, and today's 14-CURRENT. Everything looks okay on boot but "ifconfig
> wlan0 list scan" never returns anything and it's unable to join any networks. I
> also think the MAC address of wlan0 is odd (another commenter had the same):
> 00:02:03:04:05:06. I have never gotten the wireless to work under FreeBSD, even
> after the ifconfig up/down workaround suggested elsewhere. The laptop does have
> an switch to disable the wireless but it is in the enabled position. One other
> thing I've noticed is that when booting to Windows the Wifi LED above the
> keyboard lights up partway through the boot (when the driver attaches, perhaps)
> and stays illuminated, but it never lights up under FreeBSD.
> 
> I'd love for someone who knows anything about the wireless subsystem to take a
> look. As another commenter offered I could make the machine remotely reachable,
> or I'll be happy to drag it to BSDCan next month if anyone who will be there
> wants to poke at it.
> 
> #pciconf
> ath0@pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x028000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x168c
> device=0x0034 subvendor=0x1028 subdevice=0x020d
>    vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
>    device     = 'AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter'
>    class      = network
> 
> #dmesg
> ath0: <Atheros AR946x/AR948x> mem 0xf7000000-0xf707ffff at device 0.0 on pci4
> ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
> ath0: [HT] enabling short-GI in 20MHz mode
> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
> ath0: [HT] LDPC transmit/receive enabled
> ath0: [HT] 3 RX streams; 3 TX streams
> ath0: AR9460 mac 640.2 RF5110 phy 802.5
> ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0000
> 
> #rc.conf
> create_args_wlan0="country US regdomain FCC"
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
> 
> #wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> eapol_version=2
> ap_scan=1
> fast_reauth=1
> network={
>  ssid="SSID_redacted"
>  psk="PSK_redacted"
> }
> 
> #ifconfig
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether 00:02:03:04:05:06
>        groups: wlan
>        ssid "" channel 165 (5825 MHz 11a)
>        regdomain FCC country US ecm authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED
>        deftxkey UNDEF txpower 23 bmiss 7 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60
>        wme burst roaming MANUAL bintval 0
>        parent interface: ath0
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>        status: no carrier
>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> 
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