Solved Atheros AR9280 WIFI not working

jhns · Nov 25, 2018

Hey all! My Wifi is not working. I followed the Quick Start steps in section 31.3 of the manual. I'm running 11.2-RELEASE.

dmesg shows:

Code:

~ » dmesg|grep ath0
ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xf2400000-0xf240ffff at device 0.0 on pci1
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
ath0: ath_legacy_rx_tasklet: sc_inreset_cnt > 0; skipping
ath0: <Atheros 9280> mem 0xf2400000-0xf240ffff at device 0.0 on pci1
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 streaath0: AR9280 mac 128.2 RF5133 phy 13.0
ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0

Here's my rc.conf

Code:

clear_tmp_enable="YES"
syslogd_flags="-ss"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
hostname="fbsdx220"
ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
create_args_wlan0="regdomain XC900M"
moused_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
powerd_enable="YES"
# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
dumpdev="AUTO"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"
kld_list="/boot/modules/i915kms.ko"
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"

When I run ifconfig wlan0 up scan, it sometimes blocks for a while, but shows no output. I'm in the range of a Wifi network, and other clients connect to it fine.

Here's my wpa_supplicant.conf:

Code:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=2
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
    ssid="Bunte Farben"
    psk="****************"
}

When I run service netif restart, I get the following output:

Code:

~ » sudo service netif restart
dhclient not running? (check /var/run/dhclient.em0.pid).
Stopping wpa_supplicant.
Waiting for PIDS: 2303.
dhclient not running? (check /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid).
Stopping Network: lo0 em0 wlan0.
lo0: flags=8048<LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
    options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
    nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
    groups: lo 
em0: flags=8c02<BROADCAST,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
    ether f0:de:f1:ed:5f:c9
    hwaddr f0:de:f1:ed:5f:c9
    nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
    media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
    status: active
wlan0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether 00:22:5f:6d:54:42
    hwaddr 00:22:5f:6d:54:42
    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
    status: no carrier
    ssid "" channel 30 (920 MHz 11g/10MHz)
    regdomain XC900M indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 30
    bmiss 7 mcastrate 3 mgmtrate 3 scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst
    groups: wlan 
Destroyed wlan(4) interfaces: wlan0.
Created wlan(4) interfaces: wlan0.
wpa_supplicant already running?  (pid=4475).
dhclient already running?  (pid=4493).
Starting Network: lo0 em0 wlan0.
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
    options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
    nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
    groups: lo 
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
    ether f0:de:f1:ed:5f:c9
    hwaddr f0:de:f1:ed:5f:c9
    inet6 fe80::f2de:f1ff:feed:5fc9%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
    inet6 2a01:c22:a821:3300:f2de:f1ff:feed:5fc9 prefixlen 64 autoconf 
    nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
    media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
    status: active
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether 00:22:5f:6d:54:42
    hwaddr 00:22:5f:6d:54:42
    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
    media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
    status: no carrier
    ssid "" channel 39 (925 MHz 11g/5MHz)
    regdomain XC900M indoor ecm authmode WPA1+WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED
    deftxkey UNDEF txpower 30 bmiss 7 mcastrate 1.5 mgmtrate 1.5
    scanvalid 60 protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL bintval 0
    groups: wlan

Also, the following messages appeared in dmesg

Code:

ath0: ath_legacy_rx_tasklet: sc_inreset_cnt > 0; skipping
ath0: ath_legacy_rx_tasklet: sc_inreset_cnt > 0; skipping

Do I need a firmware for this device?

I need help ^^

k.jacker · Nov 25, 2018

No firmware needed for the if_ath(4) driver.

jhns said:
status: no carrier
ssid "" channel 39 (925 MHz 11g/5MHz)

Your ssid does not show ,you are missing something in /etc/rc.conf.
Before taking care of this, I'd recommend changing your ssid from Bunte Farben to Bunte_Farben

jhns said:
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"

Change that line in your /etc/r.conf to

Code:

ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP ssid Bunte_Farben"

After service netif restart your ssid should show inside the doubleqoutes of ifconfig's output, status should show as associated.

jhns · Nov 25, 2018

Hey, it turns out the space in the SSID name was not the issue.

I had the wrong regdomain set in rc.conf. I changed it to "ETSI" and now everything works!

It helped posting this to think about it more clearly. Thanks for reading my post

Solved Atheros AR9280 WIFI not working

jhns

k.jacker

jhns