freebsd-wifibox: wifibox on a Dell XPS with Atheros not starting

Hello,

I saw wifibox in the latest FreeBSD Quarterly Report and and excited to use it!

I’m on:

FreeBSD bsdell 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #67 main-n255572-bf46c0a9ae4e: Tue May 10 21:23:49 EDT 2022 root@bsdell:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64

With:

none3@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 rev=0x32 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x168c device=0x003e subvendor=0x1a56 subdevice=0x143a
    vendor     = 'Qualcomm Atheros'
    device     = 'QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = network

And I installed wifibox-alpine-ath10k-20220430 (I’m pretty sure it’s an ath10k)

I configured bhyve.confg with:

passthru=2/0/0

I then did sudo service wifibox onestart.

I see the following every few seconds:

2022-06-11T18:23:56-0400 WARN The PPT device could not be destroyed

I’m unable to ping anything (not sure if I should be able to ping anything).

I looked in /var/run/wifibox/appliance/log and there are no logs. I also did ps auxww | grep bhy and there are not running bhyve instances.

In /var/log/messages I see:

Jun 11 18:23:41 bsdell kernel: ppt0 mem 0xdc000000-0xdc1fffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2
Jun 11 18:23:42 bsdell kernel: ppt0: detached
Jun 11 18:23:42 bsdell kernel: pci2: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
Jun 11 18:23:48 bsdell kernel: ppt0 mem 0xdc000000-0xdc1fffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2
Jun 11 18:23:49 bsdell kernel: ppt0: detached
Jun 11 18:23:49 bsdell kernel: pci2: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
Jun 11 18:23:55 bsdell kernel: ppt0 mem 0xdc000000-0xdc1fffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2
Jun 11 18:23:56 bsdell kernel: ppt0: detached
Jun 11 18:23:56 bsdell kernel: pci2: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)

One thing to note is that I currently use a USB dongle for my wifi, and I started the machine with the dongle installed and then unplugged it before starting wifibox.

Any thoughts on what’s going on? Can I acquire any more details for you or try anything?

Thank you.