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    • stephenw10S Offline
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Yup, use an external AP.

      But that card should work in pfSense. Unless it hits the firmware load bug in 2.8. I don't have one to test.

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      • jhmc93J Offline
        jhmc93 @johnpoz
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        @johnpoz and @stephenw10 I just wanna get the card working, every time I load into pfsense it doesn't pick the card up, so if someone can just help me get it working it would be great if that's ok, I don't wanna use external. even though it suggested.

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        • stephenw10S Offline
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          What does it show at boot? Some firmware failure. What pfSense version are you testing in?

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          • stephenw10S Offline
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Ah, a further issue here is that iwn doesn't support hostap mode and that's a show stopper if you want to use it as an access point:

            The iwn driver supports station and monitor mode operation.
            
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            • jhmc93J Offline
              jhmc93 @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 2.8.0, not able to provide that as I can't see anything matching it

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              • stephenw10S Offline
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                You should see something in the boot logs even it just shows as an unknown device. But as I say it can only work as client or to scan for traffic.

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                • jhmc93J Offline
                  jhmc93 @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10 it shows as pci but doesn't show any errors

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                  • stephenw10S Offline
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    What does it actually show though?

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                    • provelsP Offline
                      provels
                      last edited by provels

                      @jhmc93 said in wifi card:

                      Intel Centrino Advanced N 6230 WiFI

                      AFAIK, Intel cards can function as clients, but not APs. If you choose to pursue, you're better off with a Atheros chipped card, like the AR 9280, 9380, 9565. I've tried these, just bc I like to screw parts together and spend minor money. Limited to 'N' speeds.

                      Compex WLE200NX
                      Apple AR5BXB112
                      HP 690019-001

                      NOT the Compex WLE600VX, though. But it works great in Linux.

                      Peder

                      MAIN - pfSense+ 24.11-RELEASE - Adlink MXE-5401, i7, 16 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD for SyslogNG
                      BACKUP - pfSense+ 23.01-RELEASE - Hyper-V Virtual Machine, Gen 1, 2 v-CPUs, 3 GB RAM, 8GB VHDX (Dynamic)

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                      • jhmc93J Offline
                        jhmc93 @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 Solved! I'm running pfsense on proxmox so I passed through the wifi adapter but forgot to tick all functions and pci express box. It now works thanks for your help

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