WLAN Card replacement for Compex WLE200NX miniPCI (guess Atheros AR9280)

[hirschferkel]

Hi there,

I use a Varia Store APU2C4 Router with a Compex WLE200NX a/b/g/n miniPCI Wifi card (guess Atheros AR9280 Chipset). Since first installation the card produced so many problems, either because of slowness or crashes like

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ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 8)
or

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ath0: device timeout

There was no way to set it up properly. So I'm considering to replace the card. Are there any recommendations, which alternativ Wifi Card would be easy to install without having to change anything regarding the OPNsense setup?

Best, hirschferkel

[littlepepper]

FreeBSD support for wifi cards are not that versatile. You can alternatively consider getting a wifi bridge and connect that to Opnsense that way it just sees it as another ethernet connection and skips the configuration / firmware issues you might have.

[hirschferkel]

Understand, but this way I would use 2 devices instead of one... seems not the best ecologic trick. Got a feedback from the manufacturer meanwhile, and MIKROTIK cards semm to be a possible way, too. They deal with Atheros chip sets, too, but with a different series...

[monstermania]

Understand, but this way I would use 2 devices instead of one... seems not the best ecologic trick.

I've use an external ap that need a 12V power supply like my OPNsense fw hw. So my fw and my ap both connected to the same power supply. So it takes ~15W for FW and perfect working wifi.