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I've been attempting to resolve my absurd in/out error issues for some time now, but with no real luck.  My environment is powered by an Atheros AR5212 (I believe…will edit and correct when I have the time) that has managed to be a genuine pleasure to configure, but a nightmare to operate.  In-out errors are through the roof even with the special build of 1.2-release. @covex: If I setup the antenna-settings correctly… what do you mean by that? could you please post your settings here… I would like to learn a bit more about this, too.  PFSense has pretty much been a case of solid on-the-fly learning in an attempt to provide a more flexible network environment.  I'm vaguely aware of what benefits specialized configurations bring to the table, but not necessarily how to do them. My current physical setup has two antennas, with one just barely able to reach (but still connected).  If I were to attempt single-antenna operation, what settings would I need to apply in the console/bootloader to force it to a single antenna, and is there any genuine reason I should strive for two?

How that flew past my head I don't know….. GruensFroeschli I am now up and running. THANK you sir!

The ralink card shows up as ral0 it's a PCI card. Anyway anything I try works only if I disable any kind of protection. With it no go. Nothing is outputted on the console as for syslog I'm not actually sure what I should be looking for. But clients show in the dhcp lease log even if the encryption is enabled. Thanks. Bye

For now do not hope on drivers unless you want to go the ndisgen part. That's what i use for my own 802.11n card that is a broadcom 43xx something. I maybe will find someday the time to make it work with freebsd drivers since the basics of the driver are in some drivers added to head of freebsd.

pfSense requires at least two interfaces: LAN and WAN. In your case, if sis0 (the onboard Ethernet) is your "LAN" then ath0 (your Atheros mini-PCI card) is your "WAN".

easy way of checking for atheros chipset…...anything thats 108mb is a atheros chipset they own 108mb

Thanks, that worked.

I tend to say "pfsense is perfect to handle any access point !"  :D If you trust the client that connect / use your pfsense box, daisy chain any access points that you would like - with WPA(2), DraftN - Long range, you name it, just chose the right AP for your needs. Just check that the access point shouldn't be a router, just a plain access point. Use AP to focus on your needs (like DraftN mentioned here). Another solution, if you do not trust your clients, like any bar/hotel/public AP setup : throw in your pfsense any (third) Ethernet card (a 5 $ solution), give it a static IP, and you could use access control, portal management, protect your LAN, and even more. Trying to use a Wifi-card into the pfsense box brings up the fact that the card should be supported by BSD 7 (Draft N isn’t there yet), and that the Wifi coverage will be far less (a circle around the pfsense box). For myself, I'm covering 5 levels building, 4800 square metre surface, with a set-it-and-forget-it-solution – using 6 AP’s.

That is something that could be added in the Central Management Interface bounty since it talks about remotely managing multiple pfsense boxes from a central location?  Adding to the bounty for this feature if it is important will help push it along.

I have some basic config files located on this post. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,10077.0.html

mrbostn enabled "Advanced outbound NAT" and didnt specify a rule for the OPT1-subnet. –> he routed the OPT1 subnet insted of NATing it.

What you're talking about (I think) is more suited to a product like DDWRT designed for war-driving etc where it will scan and auto-attach to wifi..

Okay, once again not a PFSense problem it appears.. migrated to a new box, and now it seems to be working okay.. terminal showed ural0: Cisco-Linksys … etc connected ural0: MAC/BP RT257u0 ural0: Ethernet Address [mac] ural0: if_start running deferred for Giant then started listing the bridge MAC's as i configured it… only issue is it's now DIRT slow.. 700kbps slow.. I know it's USB but there's only one wifi client, it's USB 2.0... etc...  Any insights?  I'm ecstatic it's working, and works for web browsing, but even pandora radio it out at this point... lol

thanks for the reply. will look into this.

Thanks. Apparently I didn't know that all windows computers have to be on the same subnet to see each other's resources through "my network places". I changed my wireless network IP addresses to be in the space of my LAN IP addresses. Now every things works fine. Thanks.