Wireless issues - WLE200NX (Atheros AR9280) - no 5Ghz option

[adamast0r]

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Describe the bug

When using a very supported wireless card (WLE200NX (Atheros AR9280) in AP mode I cannot select 802.11NA to allow channel 36 in 5Ghz.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Interfaces: Wireless: Devices -> add new device
2. Interfaces: Assignments -> assign the new wireless device
3. A new interface is created : 3.1 in the " Standard" there is only 802.11B, 802.11GN 802.11N 3.2 In the channel there are only 2.4GHz channels

Expected behavior

The wireless card supports the 802.11NA. I want to select channel 36, no 5GHz channels are there.

root@OPNsense:/ # ifconfig ath0_wlan1 mode 11na root@OPNsense:/ # ifconfig ath0_wlan1 channel 36:ht/20

root@OPNsense:/ # ifconfig

ath0_wlan1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 description: OPT1 ether 01:01:01:01:01:01 inet6 ee00::0000:0000:0000:00ee%ath0_wlan1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 groups: wlan ssid bartolo channel 36 (5180 MHz 11a ht/40+) bssid 00:00:00:00:00:00 regdomain FCC country US ecm authmode WPA privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 17 mcastrate 6 mgmtrate 6 scanvalid 60 ampdulimit 64k ampdudensity 8 shortgi -ldpc -uapsd wme burst -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs parent interface: ath0 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11na status: running nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

The wireless card works fine after this.

Describe alternatives you considered

I tried to modify the wireless configuration directly to restore a config file where I changed the: <wireless> <mode>hostap</mode> <standard>11na</standard> .... <channel>36</channel> </wireless>

However it didn't work, since I don't have any other 5GHz card I also cannot confirm if the config was fully correct for 5Ghz.

By running the following script at boot it seems to work, but not sure how reliable is long term?

/usr/local/etc/rc.syshook.d/start/96-wireless-5GHz-hack

ifconfig ath0_wlan1 down;ifconfig ath0_wlan2 down; ifconfig ath0_wlan3 down; ifconfig ath0_wlan1 mode 11na; ifconfig ath0_wlan2 mode 11na; ifconfig ath0_wlan3 mode 11na ifconfig ath0_wlan1 channel 36:ht/20; ifconfig ath0_wlan2 channel 36:ht/20; ifconfig ath0_wlan3 channel 36:ht/20 ifconfig ath0_wlan1 up;ifconfig ath0_wlan2 up; ifconfig ath0_wlan3 up;

in the end this should be fixed in the web interface. If there is other option I am happy to try it.

Screenshots

Environment

OPNsense OPNsense-22.1.2L (amd64, OpenSSL). PCengines APU2 with WLE200NX a/b/g/n wireless card - https://www.pcengines.ch/wle200nx.htm

Update 22/06/2022 I can confirm the script works long term however don't try to change wireless configurations in the web interface after running the script. Just tried to do "wireless" -> "devices" -> "add" and I got an infinite crash loop and had to reinstall :(