ASUS PCE-N53

[RBS_Vader]

Hello all. I'm totally new in pfSense, but may i ask, if someone, please, could tell me, if this card can be used through ndisulator? I tried to convert driver on FreeBSD 8.3, but, then, as i uploaded it to use on my new pfSense 2.1 platform, it always was "rt2860_sys.ko" depends on ndis - not available or version mismatch/linker_load_file: unsupported file type".

Of course, i used .sys and .inf from Windows X64 package, as i use 64-bit version of pfSense.
Also tried to update ndisulator to most recent stable8, no change.
Card seem to use Ralink RT5592 chip. May be supported by 2860 native driver, but no luck here as well.

Any suggestions, or should i just throw this card out? I just want to construct all-in-one solid router, with no external Wi-Fi APs (these are expensive, need PoE injector or ugly power cord, etc…)

[RBS_Vader]

Any help, humbly please?

[stephenw10]

Did you load the ndis module before your new module?

Steve

[RBS_Vader]

Of course. But no luck. Tried Intel 4xxx, but it have no Master Mode… I'm totally stuck with Wi-Fi realization on my hiend router project (Xeon L3110, 2-port Intel Gigabit PCI-X etc)

[stephenw10]

Use an Atheros based card for better chance of seeing useful results. Use an older 802.11B/G card.

See this spreadsheet for supported hardware:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AojFUXcbH0ROdHgwYkFHbkRUdV9hVWljVWl5SXkxbFE&hl=en

Steve

[bryan.paradis]

the RT5592 is supported with if_run but its dev/usb/wlan so not going to support your card.

Use NDISulator

https://github.com/NDISulator/ndisulator

Grab WinXP 64bit and grab the inf + sys from the winXP 64 folder inside the driver archive

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=PCE-N53&os=

I don't think you have to make a KO but its important you must use ndis =<5.1 with ndisulator so like windows xp or 2k3 and in your case I believe 64bit.

This is the example load line from the NDIS readme file.

ndisload -p -s /root/rl8139/Rtnic64.sys -n test_dev -v 0x10ec -d 0x8139

[RBS_Vader]

Thanks for reply, folks! I'll try, but, perhaps, external AP will be better solution in my project.

[jasonlitka]

@RBS_Vader:

Thanks for reply, folks! I'll try, but, perhaps, external AP will be better solution in my project.

An external AP is almost always a better solution.