Wireless driver/firmware problems

TAtari

Hello,

I've been messing about with the wireless features trying to get a DWA-127 usb adapter to work in pfSense 2.2-ALPHA (amd64) built on Wed Mar 26 16:34:16 CDT 2014. But I keep getting runfw/run0 errors.

First off I have added the following to the /boot/loader.conf.local


if_run_load="YES"
runfw_load="YES"

Here is what I've been testing using the shell (using the web interface results in the same errors)


[2.2-ALPHA][root@pfsense22.tanetwork]/root(29): ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev run0 wlanmode hostap
[2.2-ALPHA][root@pfsense22.tanetwork]/root(30): ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid testap mode 11g channel 1
[2.2-ALPHA][root@pfsense22.tanetwork]/root(31): ifconfig wlan0 up

And in the dmesg I get the following:


run0: <1.0> on usbus1
run0: MAC/BBP RT3070 (rev 0x0201), RF RT3020 (MIMO 1T1R), address bc:f6:85:66:9d:8d
runfw: could not load firmware image, error 2
run0: failed loadfirmware of file runfw
run0: could not load 8051 microcode

For comparison I ran the same on a FreeBSD 10 installation


root@freebsd:~ # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev run0 wlanmode hostap
root@freebsd:~ # ifconfig wlan0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid testap mode 11g channel 1
root@freebsd:~ # ifconfig wlan0 up

And the dmesg results:


run0: <1.0> on usbus1
run0: MAC/BBP RT3070 (rev 0x0201), RF RT3020 (MIMO 1T1R), address bc:f6:85:66:9d:8d
wlan0: Ethernet address: bc:f6:85:66:9d:8d
wlan0: Ethernet address: bc:f6:85:66:9d:8d
run0: firmware RT2870 ver. 0.236 loaded

Is there anything I've missed on my pfSense installation, that's preventing the firmware from loading?
Or is it simply missing from pfSense?

amassi

Hi,

I need to make the same try.. But i add runfw.ko and runfw.ko.symbols from a fresh freebsd 10 install in /boot/kernel and it s working well.

I am in I386 : 2.2-ALPHA (i386)
built on Tue Mar 25 14:30:43 CDT 2014
FreeBSD marrakech.amassi-network.com 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 35d2d8e(HEAD)-dirty: Tue Mar 25 15:11:39 CDT 2014 root@builder-10-0-b3-i386:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.10 i386

TAtari

@amassi:

Hi,

I need to make the same try.. But i add runfw.ko and runfw.ko.symbols from a fresh freebsd 10 install in /boot/kernel and it s working well.

I am in I386 : 2.2-ALPHA (i386)
built on Tue Mar 25 14:30:43 CDT 2014
FreeBSD marrakech.amassi-network.com 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 35d2d8e(HEAD)-dirty: Tue Mar 25 15:11:39 CDT 2014 root@builder-10-0-b3-i386:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.10 i386

Thanks that worked!
I copied the same files from my test FreeBSD and it worked fine on the amd64 build as well.

jimp

Open a bug report on redmine.pfsense.org and mention that, it should be fairly easy to fix on our side, those modules may just not be getting built/included in the images.