Compex WLE600VX Qualcomm-Atheros QCA9882 support

[cristian-ciobanu]

Hello,

Is this card Compex WLE600VX supported by this athp driver and does it support AP mode ? I plan to use it in OPNsense as an Wi-Fi AP.
If so how do I compile this driver (I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD) ?

Thank you.

[erikarn]

hi! Yeah, I'm working on the 3x3 version of this NIC. I'm doing development against FreeBSD-head, so it likely won't work on opnsense with my driver right now as it won't compile :(

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-adrian

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[stephenw10]

I have that card running in pfSense 2.5 (12.1-stable). And, yes, the WLE900VX also works.
No .11ac mode yet of course.

[cristian-ciobanu]

@stephenw10 Can you tell me the steps you took to make the Compex WLE600VX card to work on pfSense ?
Also what is the performance of this card when running in 2.4GHz band non 802.11ac mode ?
Thank you.

[stephenw10]

Somebody else compiled the driver. I loaded the resulting module. It pretty much just worked.
I have failed to compile the driver numerous times now. I'll have to try again.

The performance was nothing special. A 3x3 11.n ath card is currently better from what I have seen. However I was not really testing it for throughput, there are a number of cosmetic issues when it's loaded. I certainly wouldn't use it yet anywhere that matters. Though again the version I'm running is not current.

[erikarn]

Hi, It works a /lot/ better on freebsd-head where i've fixed up the ampdu/amsdu offload support in net80211. Please do try it on freebsd-head right now. I'm sure the pfsense folk will integrate it into pfsense soon enough. :-)

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-adrian

[salwahamad]

Hi,

I need to install a Compex WLE600VX card into a desktop/laptop
Any idea please about the reference of the desktop/laptop that I can use

[stephenw10]

There is no special requirement. Anything with a mPCIe slot should work.