I'm interested in using USB AR9280 in host ap mode only.
Stefan, are you sure that it still has no support for AP mode for AR9280+AR7010 USB dongle?
Denis On 09.04.2015 13:05, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:36:43PM +0300, Denis Lapshin wrote:For some years using Atheros WiFi modules as AP points using athn(4). Both of the listed below are working pretty fine as APs on various OpenBSD machines using 5GHz band. AR5008E-2NX (AR5418+AR5122) 2GHz/5GHz 2x2:2 PCIe AR5008E-3NX (AR5418+AR5133) 2GHz/5GHz 3x3:2 PCIe But I have trouble with USB WiFi module AR9280+AR7010 2GHz/5GHz 2x2:2 USB 2.0 and the same athn(4) driver using OpenBSD 5.4 as a host system installed. Kernel detects it as: athn0 at uhub2 port 1 "ATHEROS USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/2.02 addr 2 athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address 00:a0:c9:14:ce:a5 Firmware is latest recommended ver1.1 from athn(4) is loading also: athn-ar7010-11 While configuring from /etc/hostname.athn0 is loading configuration which works pretty fine with mini PCIe AR5008x modules on 5GHz OR 2.4GHz bands: # cat /etc/hostname.athn0 inet 10.0.1.1 255.255.255.192 10.0.1.63 media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt hostap nwid _exit wpa wpakey sdafWSR23wef9sfaAfg09hvr4y923DFsaf09wdf0989tw98e86r9wedSDAflsf F chan 44 #inet 10.0.1.1 255.255.255.192 10.0.1.63 media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap nwid _exit wpa wpakey sdafWSR23wef9sfaAfg09hvr4y923DFsaf09wdf0989tw98e86r9wedSDAfls fF chan 11 #sh /etc/netstart athn0 command restarts the dongle, but set it up first channel of each of 5GHz OR 2.4GHz bands as #ifconfig shows (for 5GHz channel is 36 instead of 44: athn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:a0:c9:14:ce:a5 priority: 4 groups: wlan media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (autoselect mode 11a hostap) status: active ieee80211: nwid _exit chan 36 bssid 00:a0:c9:14:ce:a5 wpakey 0xd9502eea0394c78b6614fa30fd57c24f2b329c09f6f20ed3a3dd002287425eea wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip inet 10.0.1.1 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 10.0.1.63 inet6 fe80::2a0:c9ff:fe14:cea5%athn0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa No one device can connect to the AR9280+AR7010 access point in both bands. In 2.4GHz band AP is seeding beacon frames but don't accept connections, in 5GHz its completely invisible for any client. Is it a firmware problem or what I'm doing wrong? Please advise. DenisHi, the USB athn driver had multiple issues which have largely been fixed. The device should work in client mode in 5.7 or -current. However, host AP mode with athn on USB is known broken. This problem has been documented in the man page but not yet fixed. I wouldn't expect this device to work at all with the 5.4 release. Which, by the way, is not supported by the community anymore.
