Regarding your wireless card, you should have a 5414 based card, the nextgen cards are not supported yet afaik.
-lsf On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Patrick M. Murray, M.F.A. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I've been happily running pfSense v1.2 embedded on a Alix board that > has 2 > USB, 2 mini pci, 2 eth ports, 1 antenna hole, a serial console port, and is > all running on a 512mb CF card, but I also have a 44pin header inside. > > 1. My first goal to make this thing wireless. I have 2 wireless cards. > The > first is a Broadcom BCM9431MPG mini pc, which is a pull from a HP laptop. > It > has 2 antenna leads. I can't find much about this card at all. It's a B/G. > 2. My second card is an Atheros AR5416, an A/B/G/N mini pci card that > is a > pull from an Apple Airport Extreme, which BTW sucks. It's a MIMO, 3 antenna > leads, with 3 antennas mounted on the sides as small chips. But it's a fast > card. But the Apple AE can't handle anything over a speed of about 750kb/s, > or > it makes the amber light on my Cisco 10/100 switch blink, and eventually > will > stall. > 3. My goal is to get 1 or 2 (I'm pretty sure only 1 wireless card is > allowed > in the box) of the wireless cards in the box, working top speed, and I read > something some time ago about attaching the antenna to a old DirectTV Dish > that is not being used, which I happen to have on my roof here in the > Bronx, > as with the Airport - even right next to it, I get only 60% signal, as my > place has brick walls that kill the signal. But I need some range of about > 3 > city blocks so my biz partner can hop on my wireless network, and so I can > use > my own wireless at the coffee shop just across the street, both in the same > direction, linear, bearing NE. > 4. So my question is, will either of these cards work with my Alix > board, and > if so, how do I find and enable the drivers? And is the dish going to work > if > I adapt the connection to the 50ft-75ft coax cable to N connectors on one > end > with the purchase of some pigtails? IF neither of these cards will work, > what > card do you recommend that will work with the dish, and/or have the highest > signal for under $100? > 5. OpenWRT is the only place I have found a driver for the Atheros > 5008 chip, > in collaboration with MadWIFI. But I need this to run as a firewall, and > temp. > router for now, as it is being used now. And I like pfSense. All other > networking equipment is Cisco, and I have a Cisco 7507 router packed full > of > goodies, but can't get a serial connection to it to set it up. Any help on > this would be greatly appreciated as well - as I have 2 RSPs, and both the > Y-cables for console and AUX, but every combo of connecting Y-console cable > to > serial port on PC using TeraTerm returns nothing at all. Yet all other > Cisco > equipment works fine. > > 1. My second question is, the embedded version is very limited > compared to > full version. Should I install a full version on an ultra-fast 1GB CF flash > card? Will it fit? Or should I sacrifice the clean box I have the Alix > board > in and throw a 40GB 2.5" HD in there on the 44pin header? And if so, how do > I > make it boot from this drive if I want to keep a CF card with a backup > config > file attached? The 44pin header is not soldered in yet, but I have TONS of > laptop parts, as I built a server out of 4 Mac Minis that all were adapted > to > handle 4 full size 3.5" drives each. A bit slow due to limit of 1GB RAM > each, > but does okay job. Soldering 44pin is no prob for me, but I'm out of > enclosures except for the Mac Mini ones, which are severely shielded > inside, > and from what I've read, the farther away the antenna is from the card, > there > is less noise, but will eventually not work. What should I do? > 2. I also would like to know what the USB ports can be used for, and > the > secondary mini-pci slot. Like I said I'm running embedded right now, and > there > aren't any options for these USB ports. I dunno what they can be used for, > but > I'd like to have network printing and network shared hard drive if these > will > work with the USB ports. How do I do this? > > > Thanks for your help in advance - sorry so many questions, but I spent all > night looking for the answers, and didn't really come up with any. I read > the > e-mails every day, but ¾ of the time I have no idea what you all are > talking > about, especially when it comes to v.1.3. ? Thanks again! > > Sincerely, > > Patrick > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 10:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] alix board embedded help > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:55:10AM +0000, Paul Mansfield wrote: > > > > > 3. My goal is to get 1 or 2 (I'm pretty sure only 1 wireless card > > > is allowed in the box) of the wireless cards in the box, working top > > > speed, and I read something some time ago about attaching the antenna > to > > > a old DirectTV Dish that is not being used, which I happen to have on > my > > > > this isn't going to solve your problem as it's a seller here in England, > > but Solwise ( http://www.solwise.co.uk/ ) have a very good selection of > > adaptors, cables and pig-tails. This would mean you could find out if > > there were off-the-shelf components which would make your project > possible. > > I seem to be unable to see the original message. The list archives > don't seem to have it either. 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