For some years using Atheros WiFi modules as AP points using athn(4).
Both of the listed below are working pretty fine as APs on various
OpenBSD machines using 5GHz band.
AR5008E-2NX (AR5418+AR5122) 2GHz/5GHz 2x2:2 PCIe
AR5008E-3NX (AR5418+AR5133) 2GHz/5GHz 3x3:2 PCIe
But I have trouble with USB WiFi module AR9280+AR7010 2GHz/5GHz 2x2:2
USB 2.0 and the same athn(4) driver using OpenBSD 5.4 as a host system
installed.
Kernel detects it as:
athn0 at uhub2 port 1 "ATHEROS USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/2.02 addr 2
athn0: AR9280 rev 2 (2T2R), ROM rev 22, address 00:a0:c9:14:ce:a5
Firmware is latest recommended ver1.1 from athn(4) is loading also:
athn-ar7010-11
While configuring from /etc/hostname.athn0 is loading configuration
which works pretty fine with mini PCIe AR5008x modules on 5GHz OR
2.4GHz bands:
# cat /etc/hostname.athn0
inet 10.0.1.1 255.255.255.192 10.0.1.63 media autoselect mode 11a
mediaopt hostap nwid _exit wpa wpakey
sdafWSR23wef9sfaAfg09hvr4y923DFsaf09wdf0989tw98e86r9wedSDAflsf
F chan 44
#inet 10.0.1.1 255.255.255.192 10.0.1.63 media autoselect mode 11g
mediaopt hostap nwid _exit wpa wpakey
sdafWSR23wef9sfaAfg09hvr4y923DFsaf09wdf0989tw98e86r9wedSDAfls
fF chan 11
#sh /etc/netstart athn0 command restarts the dongle, but set it up first
channel of each of 5GHz OR 2.4GHz bands as #ifconfig shows (for 5GHz
channel is 36 instead of 44:
athn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 00:a0:c9:14:ce:a5
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (autoselect mode 11a hostap)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid _exit chan 36 bssid 00:a0:c9:14:ce:a5 wpakey
0xd9502eea0394c78b6614fa30fd57c24f2b329c09f6f20ed3a3dd002287425eea
wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp wpagroupcipher tkip
inet 10.0.1.1 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 10.0.1.63
inet6 fe80::2a0:c9ff:fe14:cea5%athn0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
No one device can connect to the AR9280+AR7010 access point in both bands.
In 2.4GHz band AP is seeding beacon frames but don't accept connections,
in 5GHz its completely invisible for any client.
Is it a firmware problem or what I'm doing wrong? Please advise.
Denis
