Core Update 188 - hostapd woes

Getting Started with IPFire Updates Trouble
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Hello here again!

I was able to reinstall the mini appliance with Core Update 188 and restore my configuration.

So far so good.
Now to the issue! hostapd does not want to stay active.
The network card is a Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter

These are the AP settings

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And this is what the log shows

14:00:18 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:00:40 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:01:17 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:01:39 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:02:38 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:03:00 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:03:50 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:04:11 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware

Any help?
Thanks

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Hi Antonio,

did you reboot the mini appliance after saving the settings in WAPC?

was my fault some weeks ago with quite the same issue, that’s why I am asking

Greetings

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Hi! Yes, I rebooted two or three times.

This is what I get after a reboot

14:25:59 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
14:25:59 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 target 0x4100016c chip_id 0x043222ff sub 0000: 0000
14:25:59 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  kconfig debug 1 debugfs 0 tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 1
14:25:59 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  firmware ver 10.2.4-1.0-00047 api 5 features no-p2p,raw-mode,mfp,allows-mesh-bcast crc32 35bd9258
14:25:59 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 bebc7c08
14:25:59 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 5 htt-op 2 cal otp max-sta 128 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
14:25:59 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0 blue0:  renamed from wlan0
14:26:03 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:28:24 kernel: ath9k_htc 2-1:1.0: ath9k_htc:  HTC initialized with 33 credits
14:28:24 kernel: ath9k_htc 2-1:1.0: ath9k_htc: FW Version:  1.4
14:28:24 kernel: ath9k_htc 2-1:1.0: FW RMW support:  On
14:28:24 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  DFS region 0x0 not supported, will trigger radar for every pulse
14:29:51 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
14:30:17 kernel: ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0:  pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
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I also tried to connect a USB Wireless Stick Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9271 802.11n

Same issue

5

After all of today’s issues

It was solved by fixing DNS and starting unbound manually over ssh, now also the hostapd service stays active

6

Wait, now after setting the Wireless mode back to 802.11ac the hostapd service died again and so did unbound.

Switching Wireless mode to 802.11g and starting unbound manually keeps the connection going.

Not sure this is the desired behaviour, but at least the devices have a wireless connection now.

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In the end I set the blue0 to the last ethernet port and set up a raspberry pi as hostapd access point and bridged the connection, disabled MAC filtering and now at least the wireless connection works again :person_shrugging: