Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 18:34:00 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ath0 associated, wlan0 not associated Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vYFeyAcRbtgwTYeYay8rDh2mHkM-rx%2BAnMz8S8L0C4Mg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b1fd9243-58f3-fbad-49db-50cd261d26a6@m5p.com> References: <3e831eea-2035-b658-3bae-784f2aa60eca@m5p.com> <CAJ-VmonMERjYw-fMOFeLSfR3yHH2N0mY-HOPFbveiGji6imqQA@mail.gmail.com> <c7cfe619-a5d1-5f90-7313-baac36525611@m5p.com> <CAJ-Vmon1Rp%2BHhid-0mGZ5S8W9aSiBypOqgXkmC%2BA6%2BZfW=SO7g@mail.gmail.com> <a8e1fa2b-b470-6ae8-771c-3143c2149da6@m5p.com> <b1fd9243-58f3-fbad-49db-50cd261d26a6@m5p.com>
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On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote: > 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 Yes, as you speculate, the 802.11 software had a major rework and only the wlan interface is visible. It is due to this re-work that the changes to the wireless drivers can't be reasonably back-ported to 10. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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