ath (AR9280) with nanoBSD

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

It's there, it just doesn't show up in ifconfig anymore.

sysctl net.wlan.devices

if you create the interface (ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0) then
it'll show up!


-adiran


On 29 June 2016 at 11:45, Sydney Meyer via freebsd-wireless
<freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i seem to be unable to get the ath driver working on a PC Engines APU 2C2 Board with a Compex WLE200NX (AR9280) MiniPCIe-Card booting from a NanoBSD Image built from HEAD.
>
> I have built the NanoBSD Image without any BUILD, INSTALL or WORLD options and with a GENERIC-NODEBUG Kernel.
>
> I can see the Card in dmesg with
>
> root@:~ # dmesg | grep ath
> ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xfe800000-0xfe80ffff at device 0.0 on pci4
> [ath] enabling AN_TOP2_FIXUP
> ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
> ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC transmit enabled
> ath0: [HT] 2 RX streams; 2 TX streams
> ath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
> ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
>
> and pciconf -lv shows
>
> ath0 at pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x3099168c chip=0x002a168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
>     device     = 'AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)'
>     class      = network
>
> and
>
> root@:~ # kldstat -v | grep ath
>                 89 pci/ath_pci
>
> but the Card doesn't show up with ifconfig.
>
> When booting from USB with FreeBSD-11.0-ALPHA5-amd64-20160624-r302164-memstick.img the Card is getting recognised regularly with ifconfig as ath0.
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