1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2022-2024 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 September 30, 2024 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 51.Pp 52This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. 53The package 54.Pa wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 55from the 56.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod 57port needs to be installed before the driver is loaded. 58Otherwise no 59.Xr wlan 4 60interface can be created using 61.Xr ifconfig 8 . 62The driver uses the 63.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here. 64.Em linuxkpi_wlan 65and 66.Em linuxkpi 67compat framework to bridge between the Linux and 68native 69.Fx 70driver code as well as to the native 71.Xr net80211 4 72wireless stack. 73.Pp 74While 75.Nm 76supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n and ac 77the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. 78Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 79.Sh HARDWARE 80The 81.Nm 82driver supports PCIe devices with the following chipsets: 83.Pp 84.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 85.It QCA6174 86.It QCA9377 87.It QCA9887 88.It QCA9888 89.It QCA988X 90.It QCA9984 91.It QCA99X0 92.El 93.Sh SEE ALSO 94.Xr wlan 4 , 95.Xr ifconfig 8 , 96.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 97.Sh HISTORY 98The 99.Nm 100driver first appeared in 101.Fx 14.0 . 102.Sh BUGS 103Certainly. 104