• Atheros QC6174 801.2ac

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2020 4:19 pm**

Hello,
I just tried the latest GhostBSD live on my Dell laptop Inspiron 13-5378.
I want to switch from W10 to GhostBSD.
However, the wifi device was not recognised and there is no lan card on this laptop.
The wifi hardware is a Qualcom Atheros QC6174 802.2ac (pciconf -lv).
Is there any way use is on FreeBSD or do I have to stick with Windows (help

) ?

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2020 4:26 pm**

AC support is not that great on FreeBSD base os and even worst with Qualcom Atheros.

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:10 pm**

Well, so, back to the days we had to use some special usb sticks for wifi ...
I may have a wifi N stick somewhere. Believe it or not but I was really close to trash it last month !
If it dont works, wich usb stick is the best option for GhostBSD ?

Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2020 2:07 pm**

Well, well, I installed GhostBSD and I'm writing from it

But my search for smooth Wifi is not over.
Right now I use an (old) stick with AR9170 chipset so I'm stuck with wifi g.
What should I buy to get decent Wifi N since Wifi AC or AX seems not for today ?

But I need a little help for configuration.

In rc.conf I have :

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if_otus_load="YES"
wlans_otus0="wlan0"
wpa_supplicant_enable="YES"
synchronous_dhclient="YES"

and in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf I have :

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ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
   ssid="2.4bgn"
   priority=146
   scan_ssid=1
   psk="xxxxxx"
}

After boot I have no wifi so I just configure it with command lines :

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ifconfig wlan create wlandev otus0
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf &
dhclient wlan0

and wifi is ok then.

What am I missing in the config files ?

Posted: **Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:49 am**

you did well to get it working. You have done the right configuration setup. Congratulations. Comment on your full setup for the chip you have, when it is working.

Edit 3 files
/boot/loader.con
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Here is more details on setting up manually an internet connection with two different devices
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=526 Edimax EW-7811un RTL8192cu
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=570 RTL8188CE PCI Wifi device

bsd-hardware.info hw-probe -all -upload nomadbsd.org has the hw-probe application builtin.
I believe it can be downloaded using software station on GhostBSD.

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