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    SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271

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    • provelsP Offline
      provels
      last edited by provels

      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.

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        opticalc @provels
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        @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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          fireodo @opticalc
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          @opticalc

          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,
          fireodo

          Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
          SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
          pfsense 2.8.0 CE
          Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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            opticalc @fireodo
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            @fireodo said in SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271:

            @opticalc

            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,
            fireodo

            wow 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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              fireodo @opticalc
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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

              Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
              SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
              pfsense 2.8.0 CE
              Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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                opticalc @fireodo
                last edited by

                @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 Doku

                Ah 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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                • stephenw10S Offline
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  The ath(4) driver doesn't support USB NICs as far as I know.

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                  • provelsP Offline
                    provels @opticalc
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                    @opticalc It's the last post in that thread I linked, Samsung WIS08BG2X.
                    It's going on 18 years old.
                    https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rum&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports

                    78cd3708-2bbb-42d4-8979-77aecc639550-image.png

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                      opticalc @provels
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                      @provels said in SG-1100 and a USB based Atheros AR9271:

                      @opticalc It's the last post in that thread I linked, Samsung WIS08BG2X.
                      It's going on 18 years old.
                      https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rum&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-release-ports

                      78cd3708-2bbb-42d4-8979-77aecc639550-image.png

                      thanks for letting me know!
                      was is on standard intel hardware or a netgate?

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                        provels @opticalc
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                        @opticalc Intel.

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