It is possible. This driver is in the kernel now anyway though:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7725

Steve

Can the https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/7725 please be re-opened? Alternatively, @kiokoman, can you please file a new bug-report?

I have the same 8260 card and seeing same issue here. Nothing helps and it seems that without re-compiling the driver and/or firmware into external module it won't work with 2.4.5

Obviously only if there's a 2.4.5-p2 planned before the 2.5 gets released.

@stephenw10 Well CRAP! I will refer my friend to this information and to another I found that you recently responded to about the same.

Thanks,

Mike

Error 13 seems more likely to be a general query failure. It's not possible to update via whatever carrier/APN you're connected to.

@jly2680 Right now I have the AzureWave AW-NU706H USB mpcie Wifi card installed on the mini pc. There is also Foxconn WFUR6 USB wifi card which has supports AC. You can find it on AliExpress too. In the end I have ordered an VONETS AC1200 Mini Wireless Bridge Repeater Wi-Fi Dual Band Bridge Range Extender (VAP11AC) from Aliexpress which also has AP functionality and can be powered on by USB without external power plug.

@johnpoz said in Setup wireless router with PfSense:

But it seems that you could install the v3 firmware onto their v2 hardware and correct the vlan issue... But yeah would prob be easier to avoid that brand all together. If your goal is ability to actually do vlans ;)

Mine is V2, but it's not that critical and my next plans would be to update to 802.11ac or ax, though that's not a priority, as my ThinkPad can only do 2.4 GHz n. However, my phone can do ac and tablet n on both bands.

Hi @stephenw10

Thanks so much for replying. My initial poor understanding was that the Atheros chip in the Qotom was an AR9382, which information I got from the Aliexpress website, but of course I should have realised that while great on price and shipping and products, technical details from vendors there are very often wrong or missing.

Using dmesg I find that it is actually an Atheros AR9285. From the Atheros datasheet:

Frequency Band 2.4 GHz
Network Standard 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n

And ifconfig confirms:

[2.4.5-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig ath0_wlan0 list channels Channel 1 : 2412 MHz 11g ht Channel 7 : 2442 MHz 11g ht Channel 2 : 2417 MHz 11g ht Channel 8 : 2447 MHz 11g ht Channel 3 : 2422 MHz 11g ht Channel 9 : 2452 MHz 11g ht Channel 4 : 2427 MHz 11g ht Channel 10 : 2457 MHz 11g ht Channel 5 : 2432 MHz 11g ht Channel 11 : 2462 MHz 11g ht Channel 6 : 2437 MHz 11g ht

[I am so ignorant I never knew ifconfig could list the channels. I ought to read the manpages more carefully!]

So the puzzle is resolved, and thank you.

The next question is, does anybody know if there are appropriate 5Ghz cards for the Qotom Q355G4? It's just standard PCIe is it not?

See https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10678

Ok, no worries.

My solution is to simply run pfSense in a virtualbox under a minimal linux host (I installed ubuntu from the minimal.iso and selected minimal mate desktop). I configured wpa_supplicant on the linux host to associate the wireless adapter to the AP, and then bridged it to pfSense as a WAN gateway. I have a triple-WAN setup with failover (not load balancing) with FiOS, xfinity and cellular broadband as the WAN gateways. All good, it works great.

@viktor_g
Yes, more info there would be good. A lot of that is probably out of date at this point.

@Phelton said in 4G Modem miniPCIE - Sierra Wireless, Incorporated EM7305:

@Phelton
i'm very happy 💪 💪 💪
After being up all night working on it, i am proud to say that everything is working properly now. 😂

Nice! 👍

@RyanM said in Adding a mesh wifi network:

plays nice with a dedicated pfSense route

Ryan, Hi) the pfSense from FreeBSD for use as a firewall and router with an easy-to-use web interface -the only pros, don't even try, just time was spent . I installed the software yourself on my own hardware. Thought it would be great. It works well only in a house. When I go outside for a meter it immediately turns off. Also have been looking for smth that works cool with a dedicated pfSense route.

@jimp thank you! I will try few devices and see what gives me the best coverage with AP only.

What did you actually try to get this working?

I have that modem. It works.

The only caveat is the modem needs to be in the correct usb-profile otherwise you don't get an AT port. If it's a rebranded device it may be supplied locked to MBIM or QMI only and you have the change the profile first.

Steve

Thanka for the help. I'll try it tonight

Thank you stephenw10

Some stuff seems to be reversed here. What exactly do you ant to achieve?

It seems like you want to setup the laptop running pfSense as an additional access point. Perhaps so that when you connect to it all you traffic goes via a VPN?

You have the wifi interface assigned as WAN and it's logically the LAN. Those are just names in pfSense, you can do it like that, but it's very confusing.

Steve

Just for clarity loader.conf doesn't get overwritten at boot. It may get overwritten when making changes to settings or at upgrade. But any custom values should be in loader.conf.local as said.

What version of pfSense are you running? What hardware are you running it on?

iwm or it's firmware are not loaded by default. They also don't appear to be available as modules in 2.4.5 so you would need to copy them across from a compatible FreeBSD version.

Steve

Nice. I had read a lot of that but not all. Some great info on that github page. 👍

Yes you can. You can have a look at this list provided by netgate of known 3g/4g modem devices. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/cellular/known-working-3g-4g-modems.html