How to set up wifi with an USB WLAN card.
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I'm having trouble setting up wifi with pfSense. When I attach my USB WLAN adapter it's recognized as ugen0 and not as an interface. The adapter is on the supported hardware list as Zonet ZEW2500P. Could I get some help to put me on the right path to wireless freedom?
I only have a consumer level knowledge of networking but I'm willing to learn! So bear with me if I don't know how to do some stuff and need further clarification.
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The adapter is on the supported hardware list as Zonet ZEW2500P.
Unfortunately some suppliers of networking gear change the chipset brand and/or model number without changing the model number of their equipment. This makes it hard for the buyer who want to use open source software because a (for example) DLink model xyz could have one of 4 different chipsets from 3 different suppliers (for example, TI, Broadcom, Atheros). I don't know if this trouble afflicts the Zonet ZEW2500P. Please post the output of the pfSense shell command dmesg and I'll look for clues to why your interface apparently isn't recognised.
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Hi, thank you for taking the time to help me.
I have executed demsg and got :
$ dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sun Dec 6 22:57:48 EST 2009 sullrich@FreeBSD_7.2_pfSense_1.2.3_snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense.7 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz (2000.15-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>Features2=0x4400 <cnxt-id,xtpr>real memory = 503300096 (479 MB) avail memory = 478130176 (455 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <asus ="" p4sc-ea="">ioapic0 <version 8.0="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard wlan: mac acl policy registered kbd1 at kbdmux0 cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard padlock0: No ACE support. acpi0: <asus p4sc-ea="">on motherboard acpi0: Overriding SCI Interrupt from IRQ 9 to IRQ 20 acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, 1df00000 (3) failed Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0 acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0 pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0 agp0: <sis 651="" host="" to="" agp="" bridge="">on hostb0 pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1 vgapci0: <vga-compatible display="">port 0xd800-0xd87f mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff,0xe7800000-0xe781ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 2.0 on pci0 isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0 atapci0: <sis 962="" udma133="" controller="">port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xa400-0xa40f irq 16 at device 2.5 on pci0 ata0: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] pci0: <multimedia, audio="">at device 2.7 (no driver attached) ohci0: <sis 5571="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xe7000000-0xe7000fff irq 20 at device 3.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ohci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: <sis 5571="" usb="" controller="">on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: <sis 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb0 uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci1: <sis 5571="" usb="" controller="">mem 0xe6800000-0xe6800fff irq 21 at device 3.1 on pci0 ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] ohci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: <sis 5571="" usb="" controller="">on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: <sis 1="" 9="" ohci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb1 uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ehci0: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xe6000000-0xe6000fff at device 3.3 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci0: [ITHREAD] usb2: EHCI version 1.0 usb2: companion controllers, 3 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0 usb2: USB revision 2.0 uhub2: <sis 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb2 uhub2: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered ugen0: <ralink 0="" 2="" 802.11="" n="" wlan,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.01,="" addr="">on uhub2 sis0: <sis 10="" 900="" 100basetx="">port 0x8800-0x88ff mem 0xe5800000-0xe5800fff at device 4.0 on pci0 miibus0: <mii bus="">on sis0 ukphy0: <generic ieee="" 802.3u="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto sis0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:6e:cf:e8:5c sis0: [ITHREAD] skc0: <d-link dge-530t="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0x8400-0x84ff mem 0xe5000000-0xe5003fff at device 14.0 on pci0 skc0: DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter rev. (0x9) sk0: <marvell semiconductor,="" inc.="" yukon="">on skc0 sk0: Ethernet address: 1c:af:f7:0d:fb:21 miibus1: <mii bus="">on sk0 e1000phy0: <marvell 88e1011="" gigabit="" phy="">PHY 0 on miibus1 e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto skc0: [ITHREAD] speaker0: <pc speaker="">port 0x61 on acpi0 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: [FILTER] atkbdc0: <keyboard controller="" (i8042)="">port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <at keyboard="">irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0 p4tcc0: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu0 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: <isa option="" rom="">at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0 fdc0: No FDOUT register! sc0: <system console="">at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: <generic isa="" vga="">at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2000153220 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. acd0: CDROM <asus cd-s520="" a="" 2.0l="">at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 38166MB <wdc wd400bb-00dea0="" 05.03e05="">at ata0-slave UDMA100 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled bridge0: Ethernet address: 9a:ee:50:0f:5a:73 sk0: promiscuous mode enabled sis0: promiscuous mode enabled sis0: promiscuous mode disabled sk0: promiscuous mode disabled bridge0: Ethernet address: 2a:84:ab:e8:73:e5 sk0: promiscuous mode enabled sis0: promiscuous mode enabled sis0: link state changed to DOWN sis0: link state changed to UP sis0: link state changed to DOWN sis0: link state changed to UP sk0: link state changed to DOWN sk0: link state changed to UP</wdc></asus></generic></system></isa></cpu></acpi></at></keyboard></pc></marvell></mii></marvell></d-link></generic></mii></sis></ralink></sis></ehci></ehci></sis></sis></sis></sis></sis></sis></multimedia,></ata></ata></sis></isa></pci-isa></vga-compatible></acpi></acpi></sis></acpi></acpi></power></asus></software></version></asus></cnxt-id,xtpr></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe> -
The line
ugen0: <ralink 0="" 2="" 802.11="" n="" wlan,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.01,="" addr="">on uhub2</ralink>suggests it might be supported by the run driver which is new to pfSense 2.0
You could try a recent snapshot build of pfSense 2.0 and see if a run device is reported OR you could post the output of the pfSense shell command usbdevs -v which will provide a bit more detail about the USB devices which I could then check against known supported devices.
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I have updated my pfSense to 2.0 BETA 5. The WLAN adapter still not recognized as an interface. This is the usbdevs -v output before the update. After the update it says no USB controllers found.
Controller /dev/usb0:output
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x0000), SiS(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 powered
port 3 powered
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x0000), SiS(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 powered
port 3 powered
Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000), SiS(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 addr 2: high speed, power 450 mA, config 1, 802.11 n WLAN(0x3070), Ralink(0x148f), rev 1.01
port 2 powered
port 3 powered
port 4 powered
port 5 powered
port 6 powered -
I have updated my pfSense to 2.0 BETA 5. The WLAN adapter still not recognized as an interface.
Probably because you still need the tweak to get the firmware loaded.
This is the usbdevs -v output before the update. After the update it says no USB controllers found.
Looks like the same chipset the the run driver on my system attaches to.
FreeBSD 8.x (and hence pfSense 2.0) has a different USB stack from pfSense 1.2.3 and though the usbdevs command is still present it no longer works (probably because the USB stack is different).Have a look through the 2.0 BETA forum for strings run0 and runfw to see what you need to do to get the device firmware loaded and how your USB wireless NIC should identify itself at startup or when plugged in.
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Thank you! I tried runfw like you suggested in past posts and it worked. The adapter is showing up as an interface. Though I have a new problem. Even though the interface is up and running, I can't seem to find the SSID whenever I search for a wireless network.
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Thanks for the update. Glad you got it working.