USB RALINK
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I was wondering if we can take the ralink 5370 driver from ralink's site and compile it to work with pfsense? Is that possible?
If that driver is not a FreeBSD driver then it won't be of much use. If you post a link to it I can take a closer look.
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Here is the link. It is the 3rd one, "RT8070 /RT3070 /RT3370 /RT5370 /RT5372 USB" I cannot post a direct link to it. Thanks for your help!
http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=501
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Here is the link. It is the 3rd one, "RT8070 /RT3070 /RT3370 /RT5370 /RT5372 USB" I cannot post a direct link to it. Thanks for your help!
http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=501
That is for a Linux driver. There would be considerable work required to convert a Linux driver to FreeBSD (the operating system of pfSense).
The RT3070 is supported by the FreeBSD run driver in pfSense 2.0.x and 2.1 Snapshot builds. The TP-Link TL-WN321G (which seems to have the RT3070 chipset) can be purchased where I live for less than the local equivalent of US$13. Why spend hours tinkering to save spending such a small amount to buy an interface that others have found to work?
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I was looking for a wireless n capable one with an external antenna that can be changed. I don't need the wireless n right now, but it would be nice to have it for future upgradability. Any thoughts?
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Or would this one do it?
http://tinyurl.com/9pau3p3
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Or would this one do it?
http://tinyurl.com/9pau3p3
For the price I would consider it worth trying. It says it has a supported chipset but that doesn't mean it will work: The chipset designers generally have a default Vendor code and product code programmed in the chipset. However adapter designers are often given a mechanism to override those codes. Thus DLink adapter using a RALINK chipset may have a DLink Vendor code and so not be recognised by the driver for the Ralink chipset. Adapter designers can often add their own "added value" tweaks to a device and require their own firmware to make use of those tweaks. Thus the "standard" chipset firmware might (at best) not be able to activate those tweaks (for example, higher power output) or (at worst) not play ball at all with the chipset driver.
At the quoted price, I suspect there isn't much scope for "adding value" to a RALINK reference design so I would guess it would probably work OK but since I have not even seen one, yet alone plugged one into a pfSense box, a guess is the best I can offer.
If you aren't likely to cry over "wasting" the purchase price I would encourage you to buy one, try it and report back here. I expect I would likely purchase a couple if you give a good report.
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I just ordered 2, so hopefully I'll have some good feedback soon. It's from china so it will take a while. My guess on the high power output is due to the antenna. What is nice is it does wireless n, which is coming to freebsd soon. Fingers Crossed
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This rt3070 usb wireless adapter is recognized, but is having issues working. I upgraded to the new snapshot 2.1, and it seems to fail to include the run(0) driver. I am wondering if I would can use the freebsd ralink driver? Apparently it even supports wireless n. The issue is, I am unsure how to download it into the pfsense box and run makefile. Anyhelp would be awesome!! Attached is the GIT for the file, and the forum link that it comes from. this is the final piece of the puzzle for me. Even if it is just wireless g I would be happy!
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7562
http://gitorious.org/run/run/trees/8.1_REL
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I upgraded to the new snapshot 2.1, and it seems to fail to include the run(0) driver.
What is your evidence for that? I have used a number of different pfSense 2.1 snapshots and the run driver has been in every one of them. It is possible the run driver has been accidentally omitted from recent snapshot builds but I suspect "missing run driver" is not your problem.
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Actually it is missing. I went through the entire system.
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Actually it is missing. I went through the entire system.
What do you mean by "I went through the whole system"?
Apparently you are doing something and interpreting the results as "missing run driver". I would like to know what you are doing and the raw (uninterpreted) results.
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Before I send you the results I’m going to try the newest snapshot to see if that will correct the issue. I’m still hoping I can get this working properly. If not I may just give up and get a wireless AP and call it good until wireless N or the newest ralink 3070 drivers are supported. If not I’m wondering if I can compile the newest freebsd 3070 drivers and try those. Thoughts on the later?
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=7562
http://gitorious.org/run/run/trees/8.1_REL
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Alright it's finally working again. The driver must not have been in the prior snapshot or something.
Now the problem is setting up the wireless to work properly. I have it serving out dhcp numbers, but the wireless clients cannot connect up to the webconfig. I have all of the firewall rules turned off while I’m trying to get this working properly. It is working perfectly when connected directly to the LAN port. I set it as an access point, assuming that this was the correct setting.
How I have it setup is:
LAN = 10.10.5.200
WiFi = None
Bridge = None (LAN + WiFi) -
I got it working actually. Now the only problem is the usb wireless card is dropping connections every so often.