SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271
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From the docs I see:
So I got a USB one from amazon and plugged it in and rebooted and a usbconfig list gives this:
ugen1.2: <AR9271 802.11n Qualcomm Atheros Communications> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)However, nothing shows up under ifconfig (seems like I should expect to see something like
ath0) or in the webconfigs interface assignments or wireless or anything. Do I need to compile something? Im usually pretty good in googling at least where to start on things like this but in this case I can't seem to find any kind of starting point, which seems like probably a bad thing for me here.Im travelling to EU and need an allinone solution for when at the AirBNB for all the devices in the apartment, to VPN back to my SG-1100 at home.
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I have a TP-Link with that chip and it doesn't work in mine. Same, it just shows it's connected, nothing else. Check out this thread:
Known working Wireless cards
I've tried a few USB NICs and a Ralink was the only one that worked for me. As far as Atheros goes, I've used AR9280, 9380, 0565, but only as internal cards. Good luck. -
@provels
do you mind getting me the info on the specific device/chip your ralink was?I was thinking it was the SG-1100's arm processor that didnt have the ath support, so I spun up an amd64 PC based pfsense on CE2.8.0, and got pfsense all installed, and it also doesnt seem to like my AR9271 based USB wifi dongle despite that code snipped I posted saying it worked.
argh
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Hi, I use here in a Lab-Machine (2.8.0) a Linksys WUSB6300 USB WiFi and it works pretty well as Access-Point. It uses the "rtwn" driver and the chip inside is a "RTL8812AU".
I hope this Info is helpful.Regards,
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@fireodo said in SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271:
Hi, I use here in a Lab-Machine (2.8.0) a Linksys WUSB6300 USB WiFi and it works pretty well as Access-Point. It uses the "rtwn" driver and the chip inside is a "RTL8812AU".
I hope this Info is helpful.Regards,
fireodowow this is great! ill see about getting one of those.. can you tell me if its possible to use that 1 single device to offer multiple WLANs, each on a different SSID name?
Or can it use an SSID for the WAN and another for the LAN?
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@opticalc said in SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271:
Or can it use an SSID for the WAN and another for the LAN?
As far as i remember (see Doku to pfsense) there can be only one SSID and also only one Radio (2,4 GHz OR 5GHz) as Access Point.
Wireless Doku -
@fireodo said in SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271:
@opticalc said in SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271:
Or can it use an SSID for the WAN and another for the LAN?
As far as i remember (see Doku to pfsense) there can be only one SSID and also only one Radio (2,4 GHz OR 5GHz) as Access Point.
Wireless DokuAh OK, when I read this:
Most Atheros cards support four virtual access points (VAPs) or stations or a combination to create a wireless repeater.Then I thought that means we can HostAP for multiple SSIDs
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The ath(4) driver doesn't support USB NICs as far as I know.
