Problem with Atheros WLAN

Aaron LI aly at aaronly.me
Sat Mar 8 00:25:02 PST 2025


As already answered in IRC, the WiFi chip was Qaulcomm QCA9377.  It 
requires the ath10k driver and isn't supported by DragonFly.  In 
addition, FreeBSD hasn't ship this driver in base yet.

Cheers,
Aaron


On 3/8/25 2:15 PM, Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan wrote:
> Yes, I did it before, but noting showed me.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM John Marino (DragonFly) 
> <dragonflybsd at marino.st <mailto:dragonflybsd at marino.st>> wrote:
> 
>     did you see this page?
>     https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/newhandbook/WirelessNetwork/
>     <https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/newhandbook/WirelessNetwork/>
> 
>     Specifically:
> 
> 
>             POLA violation
> 
>     Recently, pure wlan devices are no longer listed by ifconfig, but
>     rather requires a sysctl to be listed. If ifconfig is unsuccessful, try:
> 
>     |> sysctl net.wlan.devices|
> 
> 
>     Maybe try that?
> 
>     John
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM Sayed Mohammad Badiezadegan
>     <mbzadegan at gmail.com <mailto:mbzadegan at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi everybody,
>         I installed the new WiFi card with the Atheros chipset in my laptop.
>         Then, as you can see in my attached screenshot file, I
>         configured */etc/rc.conf *and */boot/loader.conf*.
>         Now, I still cannot see my WLAN card when I run the "*ifconfig-
>         a"* command.
>         I also ran "*service netif restart"* many times.
>         What should I do?
>         Thank you.
> 



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