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.Dd April 22, 2023 26.Dt ATH10K 4 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm ath10k 30.Nd Qualcomm Atheros IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using 33.Xr devmatch 8 34if enabled in 35.Xr rc.conf 5 . 36.Pp 37Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following 38lines in 39.Xr rc.conf 5 40to manually load the driver as a module at boot time: 41.Bd -literal -offset indent 42kld_list="${kld_list} if_ath10k" 43.Ed 44.Pp 45It is discouraged to load the driver from 46.Xr loader 8 . 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50driver is derived from Qualcomm Atheros' Linux ath10k driver and 51provides support for the following PCI chipsets: 52.Pp 53.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 54.It QCA6174 55.It QCA9377 56.It QCA9887 57.It QCA9888 58.It QCA988X 59.It QCA9984 60.It QCA99X0 61.El 62.Pp 63This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. 64The package 65.Pa wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 66from the 67.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 68port needs to be installed before the driver is loaded. 69Otherwise no 70.Xr wlan 4 71interface can be created using 72.Xr ifconfig 8 . 73The driver uses the 74.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here. 75.Em linuxkpi_wlan 76and 77.Em linuxkpi 78compat framework to bridge between the Linux and 79native 80.Fx 81driver code as well as to the native 82.Xr net80211 4 83wireless stack. 84.Pp 85While 86.Nm 87supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n and ac 88the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. 89Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 90.Sh SEE ALSO 91.Xr wlan 4 , 92.Xr ifconfig 8 , 93.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 94.Sh HISTORY 95The 96.Nm 97driver first appeared in 98.Fx 14.0 . 99.Sh BUGS 100Certainly. 101