Help me!!! pfsense doesn't detect dlink wireless DWA-525 card
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I don't think you will get that card working anytime soon. :(
The Ralink RT35x2 series is not supported by FreeBSD. Indeed as far as I'm aware there are no 802.11n cards that are supported in AP mode.
Your best option is to buy an older 802.11g card that appears on the hardware list for pFSense 2.0. Do some research and make sure that it supports access point mode before you buy.Steve
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I don't think you will get that card working anytime soon. :(
The Ralink RT35x2 series is not supported by FreeBSD. Indeed as far as I'm aware there are no 802.11n cards that are supported in AP mode.
Your best option is to buy an older 802.11g card that appears on the hardware list for pFSense 2.0. Do some research and make sure that it supports access point mode before you buy.Steve
Thank U so much! I will try another wireless card,
by the way, could you tell me which wireless card should i buy to ensure that it will work with pfsense
and fix to my situation?
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Please read the stickies at the top of the wireless forum.
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@Cry:
Please read the stickies at the top of the wireless forum.
Those look outdated to me ;)
Is there an up-to-date list with cards that work?
And any word on how the support for N cards (in AP mode) is going?
edit: Status about that can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2010-10-2010-12.html#FreeBSD-802.11n -
Don't forget it applies to FreeBSD 6.3 (ISTR), which pfSense 1.2 is based on. That means that it won't have changed much in some time.
The cards supported by pfSense 2.0 is the same as that supported by FreeBSD 8.
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Ah thanks :)
But unfortunately that list does not mention which WLAN NIC's can be used in AP-mode. -
There is a spreadsheet at https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AojFUXcbH0ROdHgwYkFHbkRUdV9hVWljVWl5SXkxbFE&hl=en#gid=0 which gives the capabilities of wireless devices supported in FreeBSD 8.1 and pSense 2.0. (This spreadsheet doesn't display correctly under Opera, which I'm using at the moment, but it used to display correctly under Firefox.)
I've successfully used the TP-Link TL-WN321G and Tenda W311U (supported in pfSense 2.0 BETA by rum and run drivers respectively) as access points in my home network. The WN321G is a 802.11G device and the W311U is a 802.11N device but I don't have any other 802.11N devices to test 802.11N capability
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(Still) works fine in Firefox ;)
I just checked that list out. When I looked at the supported devices from the drivers that actually support AP-Mode, I did not see one PCI* WiFi adapter with N capabilities. Or I overlooked it…
*No USB, would like it inside the case. :) -
You can get usb with external antenna. Or just use an external usb port? Even use an extension cable to move it away from your steel case.
Steve
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I just want a PCI card to put in the case ;) .
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If I recall correctly, there have been reports in 2.0 BETA or Wireless forums of at least one Atheros 802.11n PCI chipset working with the ath driver. However FreeBSD 802.11n support isn't up to supporting the 802.11n capable devices in 802.11n mode(s).
There has been work on a driver for a 802.11n Ralink PCI chipset but the driver is not in the FreeBSD source tree and there are some difficulties in putting it into the FreeBSD source tree in its present form.
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http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,27258.msg141959.html ? That's PCI Express. Let's see if I can find a PCI version of that card and if it supports hostap.
edit: DWA-552, now looking for hostap mode.
edit2: Seems to work (with Ubuntu): http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg55835.html and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1053962 .
edit3: Can't find stores that sell that card in Europe… Although I found one on Ebay UK :) (Now waiting till the bidding is over.)I know there is no N(-mode) support yet, but they are working on it I believe. At least I've seen several people making/porting drivers for N-cards, something with "git"(?).
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The ath driver supports ap mode. Searching http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_chipset.php?chipset=Atheros for 802.11n capable PCI devices I found the TP-Link TL-WN951N The listed PCI IDs in the referenced web page appear to be recognised by the "current" ath driver (not necessarily the one in pfSense 2.0 BETA snapshots). If you browse the TP Link web site (http://www.tp-link.com) you may find a "where to buy" link (at least I did for the UK but that may not be the case for the best approximation to your home country). The TL-WN951N is available retail where I live for the local equivalent of around US$40.
I don't have one to try but you may think its worth trying.
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Ehm, dumb question ;), is the ath driver a different one than the ath9k that is listed on that page?
Thanks for that website though, makes searching easier :)Plenty of stores that sell it here in the Netherlands :) : http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/253876/tp-tl-wn951n.html starting from $32,77.
Hmm, too late to cancel the bidding, so I will try the one from Ebay when it gets here. I'll post if I can get the D-LINK DWA-552 to work.
(Otherwise I put it in my moms pc, saves a cable going through the house :P and then I'll try the one you mentioned.) -
The website http://linux-wless.passys.nl is reall oriented to Linux users hence the referenced driver names are the names of Linux drivers. I find it useful to see the type of chipset in a card, then I can go and look at the FreeBSD Hardware support list and (sometimes) the FreeBSD driver sources to check whether a card is likely to be supported in pfSense.
Hence the ath9k (linux driver name) should be ignored for this purpose. -
From what I've seen so far TP-LINK seems to have fairly consistent codes and numbering for their products, mostly consistent on the chipset, number of antennas supported, and what type of interface or device it is. For example, I've seen various 3-antenna 802.11n Atheros 5416-based devices with 9xx numbers, 2-antenna versions of the same with 8xx numbering, and 802.11g Atheros 5212-based devices with 6xx numbers; wireless cards, access points, and routers (though I'm not sure this applies to their USB products).
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That has been my observation too. Only exception I've seen: The TL-WN650G and TL-WN651G seem to have pretty much disappeared from retail outlets here and been replaced by the TL-WN350GD which is reported to have the Atheros AR2417 (update of AR5007G). I don't have a TL-WN350GD so can't say if it works with the ath driver.
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The website http://linux-wless.passys.nl is reall oriented to Linux users hence the referenced driver names are the names of Linux drivers. I find it useful to see the type of chipset in a card, then I can go and look at the FreeBSD Hardware support list and (sometimes) the FreeBSD driver sources to check whether a card is likely to be supported in pfSense.
Hence the ath9k (linux driver name) should be ignored for this purpose.Ah okay. :)
The 552 is on it's way, could take a while to get here (to the other side of the earth :P )…
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It's already here ;D, but for testing it seems I have to take my router offline.
To avoid that I wrote a snapshot to a(nother) CF card, put it in a Sweex USB->CF/SD/etc cardreader and have my moms pc boot from it (so my router can stay online while testing).
Well, it boots, but for some reason the cardreader turns off while booting causing pfSense to look for it and ends up with something like this: http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7834/img0580h.jpg (Found pic with Google).edit: Gonna try a full install on an old 2GB harddrive, hope that works right away .
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You have probably hit the 'unable to mount root filesystem' problem seen when a drive is connected so it has a different device name and /etc/fstab is not updated for the change in device name. In your case, your original drive was probably something like /dev/ad0 and /etc/fstab would have said the root file system was at /dev/ad0s1a. When you move that drive (or a copy) to a usb interface its device name changes to something like /dev/da0 so /etc/fstab should be changed in sympathy.
If you search the forums for 'unable to mount root file system' you'll probably see a few examples of how to deal with this.