ISO: Atheros AR9485 does not work out of the box

Atheros AR9485 does not work out of the box.

pciconf -lv | grep -B3 network
ath0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x168c device=0x0032 subvendor=0x1a3b subdevice=0x2086
vendor = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
device = 'AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter'
class = network

Source: https://twitter.com/baggetun/status/1464568702200913920

Any help appreciated. (I don’t have this device.)

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  • Created 3 years ago
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0H147 : Applications -> Under Construction -> Network

Works for me with my ath0 wireless adapter. I will test on my Intel laptop later. 20211201_210216

OK, so can we conclude that Network.app should do

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up  

when it is started?

After setting the correct regdomain with ifconfig I can now scan and connect with Wireless Networks.app again.

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down sudo ifconfig wlan0 regdomain ETSI country NO sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Just a heads up that this is reproducible with a AR9462 card too. Is the solution, then, that when the Network application is moved from Under Construction, and starts on boot, that the issue will no longer exist?

I will test on my Intel laptop later.

0H147 : Applications -> Under Construction -> Network Scanning and connecting works on my second Intel laptop

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=5fcdc19a81115d975e238270754e28557a2fcfc5 wpa: Address CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-FAILED May it be related to this behaviour?

step 1 After ifconfig DOWN and UP y was able to scan and connect to internet 😃 step 2 I was also able to reproduce again the issue with: netif stop wlan0 netif start wlan0 result: scan does not work step 3 jumped to step 1

I did it 5 times with the results as stated. Tested with hello-0.7.0_0G147-FreeBSD-13.0-amd64.iso

Down and Up did it for me.!! Up only didn’t.

*PC with Ralink RT2500 802.11bg (before this I was not able to get it working). *TOSHIBA SATELLITE S55t with Intel AC 3160 (before this I only got it working by pressing Fn+F12 keys). Both running on a freshly booted Live ISO: hello-0.7.0_0G140-FreeBSD-13.0-amd64. Complete shutdown after each test.