Very unlikely. The 802.11ac chipsets are markedly different to the N/G/A chips that are supported.

And in fact other people have tried that and failed.: https://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org/msg05524.html

Steve

Yes you could use pools in one subnet and filter them differently using aliases but you can't filter traffic between the clients on one subnet that way. Traffic would just go between them directly without passing through pfSense. Only one interface.
Really you need to use VLANs in there to separate the traffic at layer 2.

Steve

@stephenw10 after many hours digging the internet and various tryes, found that the modem card was correctlly installed for an older firmware of the apu4d4. With the one i have the modem was detected by the pfsense but the sim card was not internally linked to that slot. After moving it to the correct pci-slot. it worked like plug&play, with the &F init string and cuau0.0.
one of the good sources of info to debug the modem is https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/pfsense-lte-troubleshooting/

thanks for all the help

Mmm, well the best device you can get is something based on one of the older 3x3 chipsets.
I have a Sparklan WPEA-127N which works well. Any equivalent AR9380 based card should also work. Still pretty bad compared to any current AP. 😉

Steve

@bugman

Avoid TP-Link. Some of their gear has problems with VLANs. I have a Unifi AC-Lite AP.

It depends what you are putting it in but a later Atheros based 3x3 card is about the best you can do. So for example I have here a Sparklan WPEA-127N. It works pretty good but I still mostly use it just to test the wifi components in pfSense.

Steve

You have 5 modems? They all do this?

Do you see new USB ports detected when this happens? The modem itself could be rebooting and creating a new device.

Steve

Moved this to a new thread since that other one was from 2015 and just attracted spam!

What have you tried? What was the result?

I would expect that modem to work in some mode.

Steve

@canhtuongvinh said in Sierra MC7354 LTE for WAN:

CHAT: The modem is not responding to "AT"

The port you're using is not configured as an AT interface. Try one of the other ports.

But please keep this in one thread. It might be better to start a new thread than these older ones.

Steve

hi, i'm planning to buy Sierra MC7700 to my newly built pfsense 2.5.2, does this module still working properly?
Thanks.

@stephenw10 Brilliant, thanks

Run pciconf -lv at the command line. How does it appear? What PCI IDs?

It might already be the best card you can get that will work. Probably isn't though. 😉

Steve

This is a Proxmox topic and i'm not an expert on it.

@sujan-0 said in Wireless interface not visible:

I have installed pfSence successfully with 2 network interface vmbr0 and vmbr1

vmbr1 has no network adapter connected yet.
If you install pfSense with to interfaces, it uses the first one for WAN, the second for LAN. However, it allows only access on LAN, but that might be connected to vmbr1 which is not connected to any network.

If you only enable one interface, the GUI should be accessible on this.
Or if you're running other VMs on Proxmox, you can connect to vmbr1 as well as pfSense and access the GUI from there.

However, basically if your router provides DHCP, pfSense should pull an IP from it on WAN if it's connected to vmbr0.

post-up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s '192.168.8.0/24' -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE

I think, there is no reason to have a masqerading rule on the wifi.

@good4y0u said in Atheros AR9280 Compatibility?:

My next plan is to see if I can update the bios, if that fails I might have a dead slot on the board.

As Steve say: try that card in a other MoBo (if available). If you have an other mini PCIe-Card, that you know she is working, put her in and see if the system recognize it. So you can see if the slot has a problem. The BIOS is of course a possible culprit (I dont think so).

My 2 cents,
fireodo

The Compex WLE200NX is a 2x2 miniPCIe card. We used to sell that so I know that works relatively well. Look for that if you really want to use a wifi card in the firewall.

To be clear I agree with the others though, you will get better just about everything with a separate access point.

Steve

@spacec0boi13579 said in Wireless Stops Working Until Rebooting PFSense:

I'm wondering if this is happening when the DHCP lease expires and for some reason the wireless client can't renew the IP address.

So check if your wifi device have an IP or can renew it.
Is there only one device affected or all?
Did you verify that there is not any network access or do you loose internet access?

I have my a bridge interface setup to bridge the wireless and LAN interfaces.

Did you configure the network settings and DHCP on the bridge or on LAN interface?