How to get Atheros AR9462 running in 24.10?

[macmeck]

Hi,

I threw an QCNFA222 with an AR9462 into my router, but cannot get it running...
I am currently running 24.10-rc2 and installed kmod-ath9k. lspci -knn identifies the adapter with the following

0000:01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0034] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1802 802.11abgn Adapter [1028:0300]

but I cannot get the kernel driver working with the hardware. for example

root@router:~# echo -n "0000:01:00.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ath9k/bind 
ash: write error: No such device

Is this card not supported in the way that the ath9k modules are built?

[brada4]

Particular pci id is supported in ath9k driver

alias:          pci:v0000168Cd00000034sv00001028sd00000300bc*sc*i*

Whatt is in (a) boot messages (b) when you rmmod/modprobe ath9k

[macmeck]

not much... all empty...

root@router:~# dmesg|grep -i ath
root@router:~# rmmod ath9k
root@router:~# modprobe ath9k
root@router:~# dmesg|grep -i ath
[31796.063898] ath9k: ath9k: Driver unloaded

[brada4]

Does it work in 23.05 or ubuntu? It is quite ancient adapter, even bsd-s support it.

[slh]

@macmeck

I threw an QCNFA222 with an AR9462 into my router

What router hardware are we talking about?

168c:0034 is guarded by CONFIG_ATH9K_PCOEM which is only enabled by default in i386/ X86_64. For other targets, you'll have to enable this symbol and rebuild OpenWrt from source.

[macmeck]

okay, this might explain it. Doesn't seem to have it enabled then. I'll better find a different adapter then

Thanks for your support!

[brada4]

Connect a mouse or flash drive to check if usb port is powered and enabled and lsusb shows something.