Two that were suggested to me were http://www.ubnt.com/unifi#UnifiHardware and http://www.engeniustech.com/networking/productsdatacom/business-networking/indoor-access-points-client-bridges

I didn't go for either one but bought a cheap refurb Dlink 1525 with switchable bands, well worth $20 but not a penny more. I've got to find something else before I do any serious WiFi use.

Unfortunately that's sort of the state of using VAPs. Some cards do support 4+ virtual APs but you don't know if you've exceeded your card's limit until the driver panics. I'm not sure if the driver behaves better on 2.1 for that or not. Possible, but without some conclusive testing, it's hard to say.

Usually Atheros cards support 4 VAPs.

I do not know Linux very well but perhaps this could help you:
http://uellue.de/blog/single.php?date=1180101420
http://www.rinta-aho.org/docs/wlan/wlan.html

If you want to save yourself time and headaches, forget about wifi cards to use directly in pfSense. Get an external AP and connect it to a new interface or VLAN on your pfsense box and manage the access rules on the FW.

I did the same at home and it works great:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,59799.0.html

@stan-qaz:

Sorry I can't help with the card, I usually just hook a cheap router up on the LAN side and connect to its LAN ports after disabling DHCP. Saves fussing with compatibility and lets me put it where I need the signal too.

I do thank you for the help, and that's a smart idea….that I quickly thought about as a work around....till I realized not possible because I only have one eth NIC then I thought about routing statements....but that idea was tossed when I realized that doesn't help either...since I am trying to remove this $40 dollar netgear that I hate oh so much, being a person who loves Cisco with all his heart can't quite stand to have anything else, unless of course he makes one himself.....sounds weird refereeing to myself in the third person. (sigh) thank you sir for your help.

@patrick2le:

I am looking for driver for airlink AWLH3028 802.11g on pfsense (freebsd)

As best I have been able to discover that device uses an unsupported Realtek chipset.

If this is a PCI or PCI-Express device then please provide the output of pfSense shell command```
pciconf -l

If you are looking to get something going quickly you would probably be better off getting a card with a supported chipset (e.g. a suitable Atheros version).

Thought: I can add a nic card to the pfsense box itself… :) I will need a SFF card to fit. I think I will research this option.

1. Do you think your card has a supported chipset? If so, why do think that?
2. If the chipset is supported then you shouldn't need to do anything special to load the drivers because the kernel has (or will have) drivers for all supported chipsets.
3. If the chipset is supported then you will need to click on the "+" button on the buttom right of the pfSense Interfaces -> (assign) page to add the interface to the pool of interfaces used by pfSense.

Please post the output of the pfSense shell commands```
dmesg ; pciconf -l

fthomasr:

Cool!  Yeah I have one set up at my office now this way.  Works good for me, I just wire to the router/nearby switch, (no wifi from my laptop).

Watch out for virtual interfaces on the same WiFi adapter.  When I tried to make an AP it (with the BSS bridge),  The Atheros I am using gets stuck on loading the interface during the boot sequence, bricking the router essentially.  Heads up anyways.

Hopefully that gets worked on someday too.

@fthomasr:

Ok so I took my lab router over to the site and it also could not connect to the WRT54GL no matter what WiFi security settings I tried(also DHCP or Static), despite being associated each time. I upgraded to 2.1 beta and tried DHCP. Just as wm408 no connection either. Also just as wm408 found the connection worked only with a static. This was fine for me as that's what I wanted in the end.

Thanks wm408 for starting this thread and posting your findings. It was helpful for me.

I wrote

I did it twice
First time
Wireless interface was not enabled

The second time the wireless interface was enabled

fxp0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9 <rxcsum,vlan_mtu>ether 00:09:6b:d1:03:04 inet6 fe80::209:6bff:fed1:304%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active dc0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=80008 <vlan_mtu,linkstate>ether 00:80:ad:73:b7:fe inet6 fe80::280:adff:fe73:b7fe%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier fxp1: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=2008 <vlan_mtu,wol_magic>ether 00:02:b3:0b:ab:2e inet6 fe80::202:b3ff:fe0b:ab2e%fxp1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33200 enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536 lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 <rxcsum,txcsum>inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1460 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 syncok: 1 run0: flags=8902 <broadcast,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 54:e6:fc:93:bf:57 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect <hostap>(autoselect <hostap>) status: no carrier pppoe0: flags=88d1 <up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 109.226.48.72 --> 109.226.1.20 netmask 0xffffffff inet6 fe80::209:6bff:fed1:304%pppoe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>run0_wlan0: flags=8902 <broadcast,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 54:e6:fc:93:bf:57 inet6 fe80::56e6:fcff:fe93:bf57%run0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: no carrier ssid "bla bla bla" channel 2 (2417 MHz 11g) regdomain NONE country IL authmode AUTO privacy OFF deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 30 scanvalid 60 pureg protmode OFF wme -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs bridge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 02:11:79:20:3d:00 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 member: fxp1 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 3 priority 128 path cost 200000 member: run0_wlan0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 10 priority 128 path cost 370370</learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></hostap></performnud,accept_rtadv></broadcast,promisc,simplex,multicast></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast></hostap></hostap></broadcast,promisc,simplex,multicast></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum></up,loopback,running,multicast></promisc></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></vlan_mtu,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></performnud,accept_rtadv></vlan_mtu,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

And the second time

fxp0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9 <rxcsum,vlan_mtu>ether 00:09:6b:d1:03:04 inet6 fe80::209:6bff:fed1:304%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active dc0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=80008 <vlan_mtu,linkstate>ether 00:80:ad:73:b7:fe inet6 fe80::280:adff:fe73:b7fe%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier fxp1: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=2008 <vlan_mtu,wol_magic>ether 00:02:b3:0b:ab:2e inet6 fe80::202:b3ff:fe0b:ab2e%fxp1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33200 enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536 lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3 <rxcsum,txcsum>inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1460 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 syncok: 1 run0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 54:e6:fc:93:bf:57 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: running pppoe0: flags=88d1 <up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1492 inet 109.226.48.72 --> 109.226.1.20 netmask 0xffffffff inet6 fe80::209:6bff:fed1:304%pppoe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>run0_wlan0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 54:e6:fc:93:bf:57 inet6 fe80::56e6:fcff:fe93:bf57%run0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: running ssid "bla bla bla" channel 3 (2422 MHz 11g) bssid 54:e6:fc:93:bf:57 regdomain NONE country IL authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 2 AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 scanvalid 60 pureg protmode OFF wme -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs bridge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 02:11:79:20:3d:00 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200 root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0 member: fxp1 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 3 priority 128 path cost 200000 member: run0_wlan0 flags=143 <learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp>ifmaxaddr 0 port 10 priority 128 path cost 370370</learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></learning,discover,autoedge,autoptp></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></hostap></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast></hostap></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum></up,loopback,running,multicast></promisc></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></vlan_mtu,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></performnud,accept_rtadv></vlan_mtu,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

FYI

if anyone is interested.

I use "Fing" on my droid to interrogate my networks. does just about everything, all from my smart phone.
list all IPs and MAC addresses. I can even login into my router from within "Fing"

Now I blocked the wireless option
No one has the password

And now it is still crashes and restarts

this is Crash report  with out wireless

Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information:

i386
8.1-RELEASE-p13
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Dec  7 16:55:26 EST 2012    root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8

Crash report details:

Filename: /var/crash/bounds
4

Filename: /var/crash/info.0
Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b
  Architecture: i386
  Architecture Version: 1
  Dump Length: 71168B (0 MB)
  Blocksize: 512
  Dumptime: Sun Feb 24 12:16:09 2013
  Hostname: pfsense.zohar.co.il
  Magic: FreeBSD Text Dump
  Version String: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Dec  7 16:55:26 EST 2012
    root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8
  Panic String:
  Dump Parity: 180370485
  Bounds: 0
  Dump Status: good

Filename: /var/crash/info.1
Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b
  Architecture: i386
  Architecture Version: 1
  Dump Length: 69632B (0 MB)
  Blocksize: 512
  Dumptime: Sun Feb 24 12:17:39 2013
  Hostname: pfsense.zohar.co.il
  Magic: FreeBSD Text Dump
  Version String: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Dec  7 16:55:26 EST 2012
    root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8
  Panic String:
  Dump Parity: 2697346101
  Bounds: 1
  Dump Status: good

Filename: /var/crash/info.2
Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b
  Architecture: i386
  Architecture Version: 1
  Dump Length: 69632B (0 MB)
  Blocksize: 512
  Dumptime: Sun Feb 24 12:19:06 2013
  Hostname: pfsense.zohar.co.il
  Magic: FreeBSD Text Dump
  Version String: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Dec  7 16:55:26 EST 2012
    root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8
  Panic String:
  Dump Parity: 2043100213
  Bounds: 2
  Dump Status: good

Filename: /var/crash/info.3
Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b
  Architecture: i386
  Architecture Version: 1
  Dump Length: 70656B (0 MB)
  Blocksize: 512
  Dumptime: Sun Feb 24 12:29:32 2013
  Hostname: pfsense.zohar.co.il
  Magic: FreeBSD Text Dump
  Version String: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Dec  7 16:55:26 EST 2012
    root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8
  Panic String:
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  Bounds: 3
  Dump Status: good

Filename: /var/crash/textdump.tar.0
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db:1:lockinfo> show locks
No such command
db:1:locks>  show alllocks
No such command
db:1:alllocks>  show lockedvnods
Locked vnodes
db:0:kdb.enter.default>  show pcpu
cpuid        = 0
dynamic pcpu    = 0x51d080
curthread    = 0xc499bc80: pid 0 "run0 taskq"
curpcb      = 0xeab3ad90
fpcurthread  = none
idlethread  = 0xc4590a00: pid 11 "idle: cpu0"
APIC ID      = 0
currentldt  = 0x50
db:0:kdb.enter.default>  bt
Tracing pid 0 tid 64063 td 0xc499bc80
run_drain_fifo(c49cb000,c499bc80,0,0,0,…) at run_drain_fifo+0x5f
run_ratectl_cb(c49cb000,1,0,c12d0b3c,0,...) at run_ratectl_cb+0x5c
taskqueue_run(c486bb80,c486bb98,0,c0ede918,0,...) at taskqueue_run+0x89
taskqueue_thread_loop(c49d7074,eab3ad38,0,0,0,...) at taskqueue_thread_loop+0x45
fork_exit(c0a7a1a0,c49d7074,eab3ad38) at fork_exit+0x88
fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
--- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xeab3ad70, ebp = 0 ---
db:0:kdb.enter.default>  ps
  pid  ppid  pgrp  uid  state  wmesg    wchan    cmd
34986 21030  249    0  S      nanslp  0xc133ea24 sleep
4549 33950    25    0  S      nanslp  0xc133ea24 sleep
1278 17458 17458    0  S      piperd  0xc4a03930 rrdtool
51494    1 51494    0  Ss      select  0xc4c79624 ntpd
21030    1  249    0  S      wait    0xc4e797f8 sh
17458    1 17458    0  Ss      select  0xc49fee24 apinger
41116 39984 41116    0  S+      ttyin    0xc45e1c70 sh
39984 39656 39984    0  S+      wait    0xc4e78d48 sh
39934 12174 39934    0  Ss      (threaded)          sshlockout_pf
64110                  S      nanslp  0xc133ea24 sshlockout_pf
64103                  S      piperd  0xc4a04188 initial thread
39656    1 39656    0  Ss+    wait    0xc4e78550 login
38928 38628 38573    62  S      piperd  0xc4e50188 unlinkd
38628 38573 38573    62  S      select  0xc4c77aa4 initial thread
38573    1 38573    62  Ss      wait    0xc4c74d48 squid
36013 35612 35612    0  S      nanslp  0xc133ea24 minicron
35612    1 35612    0  Ss      wait    0xc49ed7f8 minicron
35318 34760 34760    0  S      nanslp  0xc133ea24 minicron
34760    1 34760    0  Ss      wait    0xc4c742a8 minicron
34496 34291 34291    0  S      nanslp  0xc133ea24 minicron
34291    1 34291    0  Ss      wait    0xc4c737f8 minicron
33950    1    25    0  S+      wait    0xc49f0000 sh
39345    1 39345    0  Ss      nanslp  0xc133ea24 cron
28670    1 28528 65534  S      select  0xc4c78264 dnsmasq
27682    1 27682  1002  Ss      select  0xc4c77e24 dhcpd
21472 19978 19813    0  S      nanslp  0xc133ea24 initial thread
20306 19978 19813    0  S      accept  0xc4aa4512 initial thread
19978    1 19813    0  S      kqread  0xc4acb900 lighttpd
13160    1 13160    0  Ss      select  0xc486a1a4 inetd
12174    1 12174    0  Ss      select  0xc486b864 syslogd
11530    1    25    0  S+      piperd  0xc4a03dc8 logger
11191    1    25    0  S+      bpf      0xc4bc3400 tcpdump
8136    1  8136    0  Ss      select  0xc4991d24 hostapd
5149    1  5149    0  Ss      (threaded)          mpd5
64085                  S      select  0xc49ff3e4 mpd5
  264    1  264    0  Ss      select  0xc4990024 devd
  251  249  249    0  S      kqread  0xc4a01d00 check_reload_status
  249    1  249    0  Ss      kqread  0xc4a01b80 check_reload_status
  40    0    0    0  SL      mdwait  0xc49af000 [md0]
  24    0    0    0  SL      sdflush  0xc136d480 [softdepflush]
  23    0    0    0  SL      syncer  0xc1352594 [syncer]
  22    0    0    0  SL      vlruwt  0xc45d5d48 [vnlru]
  21    0    0    0  SL      psleep  0xc13522c8 [bufdaemon]
  20    0    0    0  SL      pgzero  0xc136e134 [pagezero]
  19    0    0    0  SL      pollid  0xc133df7c [idlepoll]
  18    0    0    0  SL      psleep  0xc136dd5c [vmdaemon]
  17    0    0    0  SL      psleep  0xc136dd24 [pagedaemon]
    9    0    0    0  SL      ccb_scan 0xc1308c54 [xpt_thrd]
    8    0    0    0  SL      pftm    0xc04f7020 [pfpurge]
    7    0    0    0  SL      waiting_ 0xc13599d8 [sctp_iterator]
  16    0    0    0  SL      tzpoll  0xc130da8c [acpi_thermal]
  15    0    0    0  SL      (threaded)          usb
64045                  D      -        0xc4725d0c [usbus3]
64044                  D      -        0xc4725cdc [usbus3]
64043                  D      -        0xc4725cac [usbus3]
64042                  D      -        0xc4725c7c [usbus3]
64040                  D      -        0xc4711dac [usbus2]
64039                  D      -        0xc4711d7c [usbus2]
64038                  D      -        0xc4711d4c [usbus2]
64037                  D      -        0xc4711d1c [usbus2]
64035                  D      -        0xc46fadac [usbus1]
64034                  D      -        0xc46fad7c [usbus1]
64033                  D      -        0xc46fad4c [usbus1]
64032                  D      -        0xc46fad1c [usbus1]
64030                  D      -        0xc46e5dac [usbus0]
64029                  D      -        0xc46e5d7c [usbus0]
64028                  D      -        0xc46e5d4c [usbus0]
64027                  D      -        0xc46e5d1c [usbus0]
  14    0    0    0  SL      -        0xc133e884 [yarrow]
    6    0    0    0  SL      crypto_r 0xc136caac [crypto returns]
    5    0    0    0  SL      crypto_w 0xc136ca88 [crypto]
    4    0    0    0  SL      -        0xc133c124 [g_down]
    3    0    0    0  SL      -        0xc133c120 [g_up]
    2    0    0    0  SL      -        0xc133c118 [g_event]
  13    0    0    0  SL      sleep    0xc12df260 [ng_queue0]
  12    0    0    0  RL      (threaded)          intr
64051                  I                          [irq1: atkbd0]
64049                  I                          [irq15: ata1]
64048                  I                          [irq14: ata0]
64047                  I                          [irq22: dc0]
64046                  I                          [irq20: fxp0 fxp1]
64041                  I                          [irq23: ehci0]
64036                  I                          [irq18: uhci2]
64031                  I                          [irq19: uhci1]
64026                  I                          [irq16: uhci0]
64025                  I                          [irq9: acpi0]
64021                  I                          [swi2: cambio]
64020                  I                          [swi6: task queue]
64019                  I                          [swi6: Giant taskq]
64017                  I                          [swi5: +]
64007                  I                          [swi3: vm]
64006                  RunQ                        [swi4: clock]
64005                  I                          [swi1: netisr 0]
  11    0    0    0  RL                          [idle: cpu0]
    1    0    1    0  SLs    wait    0xc458ed48 [init]
  10    0    0    0  SL      audit_wo 0xc136ce20 [audit]
    0    0    0    0  RLs    (threaded)          kernel
64063                  Run    CPU 0              [run0 taskq]
64024                  D      -        0xc46a0280 [acpi_task_2]
64023                  D      -        0xc46a0280 [acpi_task_1]
64022                  D      -        0xc46a0280 [acpi_task_0]
64018                  D      -        0xc46a04c0

pfsense>NIC>Wireless Router

Wireless router with PFSense = wireless networking

Therefore, it is a specific question.

A general question would be mor etoward "What routers are best to use for PFSense?" rather than "How do I set up a wireless router with PFSense and configure it?"

@kisw:

I have the same chipset (TP LINK WN7200) but nothing happens when I connect the card to USB. How to make it work?

Its possible two or more different chipsets are used in the WN7200.

What are you expecting to happen? If the device makes electrical connection to the bus and it is a real USB device (not just a battery charger!) then the connection should be reported on the pfSense console and in the output of the pfsense shell command```
dmesg

Wallabybob my bad that I couldnt give you the exact nightly build of Pfsense I am using but I am not at work anymore and wanted to respond to the thread rather than leave it in limbo. I think my PFsense is from last Sunday that would be 2.1 Sunday nightly build

@wallabybob:

Without more information it is a bit hard to say what happened.

@greenpoise:

(Any destination: Not in Type with Lan Subnet) .

Presumably you mean: Destination: Not LAN subnet

@greenpoise:

I also set up my OPT1 as a DHCP Server with range from 192.168.2.6 - 192.168.2.50 (My AP address is 192.168.2.5)..Then, hell broke loose!! Now PFsense does not give me any connection.

Connection from where to where? from a computer on LAN port? on OPT1 port? a WiFi client? What sort of connection: png? web page? ssh? etc

What was reported on the connection attempt - timeout? unknown host? no route to host? etc

@greenpoise:

I can access PFsense but there is no internet within. I ping outside from PFsense and it works. No error messages…nothing..

Where did you look for error messages?

PERHAPS you didn't reset firewall states after adding the firewall rule for OPT1. See Diagnostics -> States, click on Reset States tab and read.

@greenpoise:

I disabled my OPT1, deleted my firewall rule of my AP..set everything up as before..and still no internet…

Again, without more details (see above for the details it would be helpful to have) it is hard to give an explanation.

Nothing you have described has any obvious reason to affect operation on the pfSense LAN network UNLESS you have chosen duplicate or overlapping IP address ranges.

Please tell us about your AP - is it a router, a router with network switch, a wireless bridge?

In addition to answering the questions above I suggest you take a more step wise approach:

1. You check all your IP subnets have distinct (non overlapping) IP address ranges. If they don't, fix that and reboot pfSense. (I have found it sometmies seems to be necessary to reboot pfSense to clear out memory of old IP subnet assignments.)

2. Save your pfSense configuration.

3. Configure OPT1 (distinct IP address range), configure its DHCP server, enable it, verify you still have access to the internet from a computer on the pfSense LAN interface.

4. Plug in a computer to the pfSense OPT1 interface (cross over cable if necessary) and verify it gets correct DHCP assigned IP address, DNS and gateway.

5. Plug in the AP to the OPT1 interface and verify a computer can associate with the AP and gets an IP address from the correct range and gets correct gateway and DNS. Since I don't know if you are using the AP as a router or WiFi bridge I can't say what the correct values are.

If you report back on which step you get to and what happened when you attempted to complete the next step I will try to assist you to get to the next step.

My bad for the short description on the problem. I figured it out. Pfblocker was blocking my Opt1. I chose Opt1 as inbound interface and everything worked back to normal

@rocketdog:

Is there any easy way to update pfSense to 2.1,

That won't help. You need to load the firmware at boot time: add the following line to pfSense file /boot/loader.conf.local (create the file if it doesn't already exist):```
runfw_load="YES"

I finally got wifi to work. Had to really read it over and over. It was the protocol that was goofing me up. LOL Thank you for all the help! I will get working on a video tutorial very soon

I guess I just had bad luck. I'll stick with the external AP for now and maybe when pfSense moves to 9.x I'll try again :)

It certainly is…

I've just thrown up the same scenario on my spare Thinkpad to test (see attached)...

Caveats are:

You'll need a good signal!

The Wifi will probably be NAT'd - decrease the MTU on the WAN to 1492 & LAN to 1484 to avoid fragmentation (double-NAT!)

I'm assuming the 'source' of the wifi is friendly (neighbour, commercial service, café etc.) not just some random, open network you can 'see' from your new place!

NB.  The screenshot is showing 'update available' for 2.0.2 - this is because the wifi I'm testing with is the captive portal on a 'live' pfsense box, the challenge page is making it thinks there's an update?!?

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