Hardware

Those USB ID's are in freebsd 8.4 which is what 1.8 m0n0wall is based on.

this is the file that you want to check

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs?revision=251259&view=markup

which is why the device is recognised as a usb device,  but there is no driver to attach.

the devices supported are here

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/8.4.0/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_run.c?revision=251259&view=markup

and it's not on the list,  looks like someone added the device id but not a driver to freebsd.

and  others have tried to just add the usb ID to the driver and got further, but not to a point it works

http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-wireless/2012-11/msg00069.html

Thanks for your clarification, brushedmoss.
Looks to me that we're out of luck now.

Anyone else who has a different USB ID should give this test version a try (and please let us know if it works): http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,5657.0.html#msg18763

Thanks for clearing all this up. I offered to play with this only because I have such a device, but not the need to use it with m0n0wall.

I have always recommended and use myself an ethernet attached access point. I prefer this even to the Atheros card installed into my ALIX.

I am with Fred on that.  M0n0wall makes a wonderful firewall, but a terrible AP.  EnGenius makes good APs and they hook nicely to both Ethernet interfaces, and v-lans.