Hi everyone,
I’m new to VyOS and this forum and was hoping to find some resources regarding 5.0GHz Wi-Fi and 802.11ac.
I have a lanner box with vyos 1.3.4 installed, and I can see the QCA986x/988x pci device showing up and using ath10k_pci driver. I followed the documentation to setup the wireless interface, and 2.4Ghz channels are working, however whenever I try to use 802.11ac or use a 5.0GHz channel the wlan0 interface link status goes down.
I found this previous bug for enabling 5.0Ghz ⚓ T452 WiFi: Enable support for 5GHz AccesPoints with DFS but I’m not 100% sure I understand what’s needed. I pulled the firmware that was mentioned and loaded it but I didn’t see any improvement.
One thing I am a bit confused about is regarding the phy0 and phy1. I saw in some dual-band wifi configuration examples that phy0 and phy1 were used together which 2.4 and 5.0 channels, but I do not see a phy1 device.
vyos@platt-gw1.local# iw dev
phy#0
Interface wlan0
ifindex 10
wdev 0x1
addr 02:0e:8e:94:2d:00
ssid platt test
type AP
channel 10 (2457 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2457 MHz
txpower 20.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcol tx-bytes ts
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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[ 19.072343] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory d
atabase
[ 19.108490] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
[ 19.177006] cfg80211: loaded regulatory.db is malformed or signature is missi
ng/invalid
[ 19.263553] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 r
eset_mode 0
[ 19.294120] random: crng init done
[ 19.294122] random: 2 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
[ 19.412398] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 target 0x4100016c chip_id
0x043222ff sub 1dac:0257
[ 19.412402] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 0 tracing 0 dfs
1 testmode 0
[ 19.412666] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: firmware ver 10.2.4-1.0-00047 api 5 feat
ures no-p2p,raw-mode,mfp,allows-mesh-bcast crc32 35bd9258
[ 19.453081] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 bebc7c
08
vyos@platt-gw1.local# sudo iw reg get
global
country US: DFS-FCC
(902 - 904 @ 2), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(904 - 920 @ 16), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(920 - 928 @ 8), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(2400 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 30), (N/A)
(5150 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 23), (N/A), AUTO-BW
(5250 - 5350 @ 80), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW
(5470 - 5730 @ 160), (N/A, 24), (0 ms), DFS
(5730 - 5850 @ 80), (N/A, 30), (N/A), AUTO-BW
(5850 - 5895 @ 40), (N/A, 27), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, NO-IR
(57240 - 71000 @ 2160), (N/A, 40), (N/A)
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If anyone has some experience with getting 5.0 channels working I’d really appreciate the guidance. Thanks a lot!
Eric