Intel C1037U pfSense 2.2 Installation no WiFi detection

stephenw10

You'll need to use 'lspci -nn' to show the pci ids.
However I don't think there's a driver for the bcm43224 so you're probably out of luck.

Steve

mYreme

So the ID's are the following: 14e4:4353

Found some discussions on the internet about an FreeBSD driver.
Maybe possible to compile?

stephenw10

Do you have a link to those discussions? I can only find references to there being no driver.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192057#c1

Steve

mYreme

I ended up with two threads, more one description and one driver compilation.
Don't know if it's ok to post them here?

best regards

stephenw10

Unless the discussions were on some highly suspect site I don't see why it should be a problem. PM them to if you want.

Steve

mYreme

Maybe they could help in some way:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-bcm43224-wireless-linux-driver-on-centos-6-x/

best regards

stephenw10

Unfortunately neither of those are helpful. They both refer to the Linux driver and pfSense is built on FreeBSD, which isn't Linux.

Steve

thezfunk

Save yourself the time and trouble and just get an Atheros card that works. Lucky for you, I have an Intel C1037U and a working WiFi card. Qualcomm Atheros Wireless AR5BHB92 AR9280 PCI-E Half Mini Card will do the trick.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JESLUWQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Brrm

@thezfunk:

Save yourself the time and trouble and just get an Atheros card that works. Lucky for you, I have an Intel C1037U and a working WiFi card. Qualcomm Atheros Wireless AR5BHB92 AR9280 PCI-E Half Mini Card will do the trick.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JESLUWQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have this card (as well as an AR9462 card) and I couldn't get it to work as a client in 'Infrastructure' mode. I haven't tested AP mode. Did you use it in both modes? If so, what settings did you use?

thezfunk

@Brrm:

@thezfunk:

Save yourself the time and trouble and just get an Atheros card that works. Lucky for you, I have an Intel C1037U and a working WiFi card. Qualcomm Atheros Wireless AR5BHB92 AR9280 PCI-E Half Mini Card will do the trick.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JESLUWQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have this card (as well as an AR9462 card) and I couldn't get it to work as a client in 'Infrastructure' mode. I haven't tested AP mode. Did you use it in both modes? If so, what settings did you use?

Good point, I have not tried Infrastructure mode. The last time I tried setting that up I could not get it to work so I haven't even considered it since. It does work in AP mode just fine. I got it working on both 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz but it won't do both, simultaneously. Since I have some 2.4GHz only devices I stuck with 'N'. I'll check my settings when I get home but it is WPA2 and I picked an empty channel, I think 8. With my dual 6db antennas it gets quite good coverage.

mYreme

The not supported WiFi PCIe card is the only thing keeping me away from installing pfSense this hardware.
By now I am running it in VMWare ESXi with two other virtual servers going very well.

I cant get this card to my country, and I can't buy on amazon.com :D