@lsf:

But the best way to AMP a signal is allways by adding a suitable antenna, by suitable I mean a antenna that gives you the gain you need With the narrowest radiation pattern you can live with.

I absolutely second that!

For the rest of the post I stick to what I said and do not open Pandora's box.

On a side note I found a receiver booster which only boosts from the antenna down the cable. Together with a raised output power from the card this can make sense as well. But I have no experience with this unit!

Use diagnostics>edit file from the webgui. It will set the filesystem rw and ro again on save (I guess you are running the embedded version).

You can …

Have two subnet for LAN and WLAN, i have choose this solution ...

With WPA2 and 802.1x on AP ...

okay thanks that is what i needed to know  ;D

I'm basically thinking of doing the same thing. What I have is a church and a house, and linking the DSL on the house to the church, ~300 meters away. I somehow doubt a regular box router is powerful enough, would it be? What we're planning on doing is using a SMA adapter on both of them, wire the coax outside, strip a few inches of shielding off the end and get them in line-of-sight. If I set up a normal box router as an AP at the house, can I turn a PFsense box with a wireless adapter & NIC to expand the LAN?

Never mind, I figured it out :-[.

Thanks

@dotdash:

There are many sysctl tweaks for the atheros hal. Search around in the wireless forum, there is quite a lot of discussion on the antenna diversity settings. If you are using a laptop mini-pci card, the firmware settings are to use both antennas, and the settings seem to have a way of changing back after you change them in the shell. There are some examples somewhere of adding the settings to the config.xml and setting a cron job to set it back.

I've already tried sysctl tweaks, but I had no luck with them. I've also added lines to sysctl.conf as described in a topic, but FreeBSD got a kernel panic at the next reboot forcing me to reinstall pfSense.
I've been using a PCI wifi-card with an Atheros 5212 chipset. Do these tweaks useful only for miniPCI cards?
I think I have to enable a sort of debugging, but I don't know how to do it since I am a Window$ user and I know few things about linux/unix.

1- Is it possibile to get more details from hostapd while it is running? It would help me to understand better the problem, because those annoying EAPOL warnings in the system logs are not so useful alone. What I have to edit/configure?

2- I've seen some fields in hostapd_ath0.conf, but they're replaced with default value. Can they be useful to enable a detailed debugging? Or is there another way?

I'm getting crazy because I've never debugged a wireless network problem. It is time to learn now… :'(

Thank you

MAC filtering can be enabled backend, this has been explained before (search forum and tickets).
WDS is not a standard, and is is not possible to enable a WDS type setup in pfsense(freebsd/driver limitation).

hi,
lets discuss the problem again. or does anybody solved it?

I upgraded to 1.2-BETA-1 and the configuration is WAN=wireless adapter, which gets the IP via DHCP from another AP. LAN=interl card and works fine.

If I reboot the pfsense box, then the WAN interface does not get an IP address. After a release/renew made by hand, it works fine.
What should or could I do, that pfsense gets an IP address after rebooting?
thx

Now I finally got an adapter yesterday, I used wireless for PFSense and am having the same problem. But the problem IS the PSP. I read a Sony forum where A LOT of people are having trouble with WPA on a wide variety of wireless routers. WEP does seem to work fine for me, but I won't enable it for security reasons

AFAIK, you can run in a,b,g if you are in client mode. I you are running as an AP, you have to pick between a and b/g.

It seems that the problem occurs only when the CM9 card is working in client mode.

I have managed to overcome this by making a shell script, executed by crontab every 5 minutes, that sets the correct values.

I have not noticed any problem with that for about 7 days of constant operation.

I don't think that this is possible, not only in pfsense. You have to choose between b/g or a.

Maybe I'm wrong but i haven't seen anything like that from any wireless card.

I've never really looked at the madwifi list before now, but it is actually a good reference list of cards based on Atheros chipsets. Every card listed there should work, and that list appears to be much more comprehensive than any list I've seen for FreeBSD.

Definitely a worthwhile reference, even if it is for a completely different OS.

@ngoc:

Hello,

1. What are the internal card valid for PFsense?

Anything supported by FreeBSD I suspect:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html

@ngoc:

2. I want to get an access point with several relay? For example:

wan–-pfsense --- AP ----Relay1---Pc2
                          |
                          |
                          PC1

Is it possible? The AP can be an internal card?

You could do this with an internal wireless card, see the pfSense features page (http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=26) for details of what's supported.

I gather this is now working as it is all ok for me now

Wich version of PFsense do you use ?
My WRAP works fine with the 1.0.1 Release…

I do have the same chipset with the same problem. Can you please provide me, which bios version I sould take with a short howto upgrade?

Thanks in advance
Regards Chris