1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2022 Bjoern A. Zeeb 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd April 22, 2023 28.Dt ATH10K 4 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm ath10k 32.Nd Qualcomm Atheros IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using 35.Xr devmatch 8 36if enabled in 37.Xr rc.conf 5 . 38.Pp 39Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following 40lines in 41.Xr rc.conf 5 42to manually load the driver as a module at boot time: 43.Bd -literal -offset indent 44kld_list="${kld_list} if_ath10k" 45.Ed 46.Pp 47It is discouraged to load the driver from 48.Xr loader 8 . 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52driver is derived from Qualcomm Atheros' Linux ath10k driver and 53provides support for the following PCI chipsets: 54.Pp 55.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 56.It QCA6174 57.It QCA9377 58.It QCA9887 59.It QCA9888 60.It QCA988X 61.It QCA9984 62.It QCA99X0 63.El 64.Pp 65.Pp 66This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. 67The package 68.Pa wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 69from the 70.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 71port needs to be installed before the driver is loaded. 72Otherwise no 73.Xr wlan 4 74interface can be created using 75.Xr ifconfig 8 . 76The driver uses the 77.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here. 78.Em linuxkpi_wlan 79and 80.Em linuxkpi 81compat framework to bridge between the Linux and 82native 83.Fx 84driver code as well as to the native 85.Xr net80211 4 86wireless stack. 87.Pp 88While 89.Nm 90supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n and ac 91the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. 92Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 93.Sh BUGS 94Certainly. 95.Sh SEE ALSO 96.Xr wlan 4 , 97.Xr ifconfig 8 , 98.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 99.Sh HISTORY 100The 101.Nm 102driver first appeared in 103.Fx 14.0 . 104