ath0 associated, wlan0 not associated

George Mitchell george+freebsd at m5p.com
Sat Nov 5 18:58:54 UTC 2016


On 11/05/16 13:00, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 11/05/16 01:05, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> nope, sorry.  There's a lot of work in the -11 wifi stack and drivers.
>>
>>
>> -a
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Okay, I downloaded and installed 11.0-RELEASE on a spare slice, and
> dmesg tells me the following (with regard to ath0):
> 
> 
> ath0: <Qualcomm Atheros AR9565> mem 0xf0a00000-0xf0a7ffff irq 36 at
> device 0.0 on pci2
> ath0: WB335 2-ANT card detected
> ath0: Bluetooth Antenna Diversity card detected
> ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
> ath0: [HT] enabling short-GI in 20MHz mode
> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
> ath0: [HT] 1 RX streams; 1 TX streams
> ath0: QCA9565 mac 704.1 RF5110 phy 2523.1
> ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x0000
> 
> But ifconfig tells me there is no "ath0" interface ... Does 11.0
> handle wifi in some unfamiliar manner?  I put my usual wifi magic
> into rc.conf:
> 
> create_args_wlan0="country US"
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
> 
> -- George
> 
I forgot to copy my wpa_supplicant.conf over.  Now it works!  (I
guess the invisible ath0 is just how 11.0 works?)      -- George


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