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<table class="head">
<tr>
<td class="head-ltitle">ATH10K(4)</td>
<td class="head-vol">Device Drivers Manual</td>
<td class="head-rtitle">ATH10K(4)</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="manual-text">
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><code class="Nm">ath10k</code> — <span class="Nd">Qualcomm
Atheros IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver</span></p>
</section>
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="SYNOPSIS"><a class="permalink" href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using
<a class="Xr">devmatch(8)</a> if enabled in
<a class="Xr">rc.conf(5)</a>.</p>
<p class="Pp">Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following
lines in <a class="Xr">rc.conf(5)</a> to manually load the driver as a
module at boot time:</p>
<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li">
<pre>kld_list="${kld_list} if_ath10k"</pre>
</div>
<p class="Pp">It is discouraged to load the driver from
<a class="Xr">loader(8)</a>.</p>
</section>
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The <code class="Nm">ath10k</code> driver is derived from Qualcomm
Atheros' Linux ath10k driver</p>
<p class="Pp" id="linuxkpi_wlan">This driver requires firmware to be loaded
before it will work. The package
<span class="Pa">wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod</span> from the
<span class="Pa">ports/net/wifi-firmware-ath10k-kmod</span> port needs to be
installed before the driver is loaded. Otherwise no
<a class="Xr">wlan(4)</a> interface can be created using
<a class="Xr">ifconfig(8)</a>. The driver uses the
<a class="permalink" href="#linuxkpi_wlan"><i class="Em">linuxkpi_wlan</i></a>
and
<a class="permalink" href="#linuxkpi"><i class="Em" id="linuxkpi">linuxkpi</i></a>
compat framework to bridge between the Linux and native
<span class="Ux">FreeBSD</span> driver code as well as to the native
<a class="Xr">net80211(4)</a> wireless stack.</p>
<p class="Pp">While <code class="Nm">ath10k</code> supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n
and ac the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes.
Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come.</p>
</section>
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="HARDWARE"><a class="permalink" href="#HARDWARE">HARDWARE</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The <code class="Nm">ath10k</code> driver supports PCIe devices
with the following chipsets:</p>
<p class="Pp"></p>
<div class="Bd-indent">
<dl class="Bl-tag Bl-compact">
<dt>QCA6174</dt>
<dd style="width: auto;"> </dd>
<dt>QCA9377</dt>
<dd style="width: auto;"> </dd>
<dt>QCA9887</dt>
<dd style="width: auto;"> </dd>
<dt>QCA9888</dt>
<dd style="width: auto;"> </dd>
<dt>QCA988X</dt>
<dd style="width: auto;"> </dd>
<dt>QCA9984</dt>
<dd style="width: auto;"> </dd>
<dt>QCA99X0</dt>
<dd style="width: auto;"> </dd>
</dl>
</div>
</section>
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE
ALSO</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><a class="Xr">wlan(4)</a>, <a class="Xr">ifconfig(8)</a>,
<a class="Xr">wpa_supplicant(8)</a></p>
</section>
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="HISTORY"><a class="permalink" href="#HISTORY">HISTORY</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The <code class="Nm">ath10k</code> driver first appeared in
<span class="Ux">FreeBSD 14.0</span>.</p>
</section>
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="BUGS"><a class="permalink" href="#BUGS">BUGS</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">Certainly.</p>
</section>
</div>
<table class="foot">
<tr>
<td class="foot-date">September 30, 2024</td>
<td class="foot-os">FreeBSD 15.0</td>
</tr>
</table>
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