Channels of WLAN cards

MdeWendt · Dec 10, 2005, 8:11 AM

Hello,

i'm using an WRAP board with the embedded version of pfsense (at the moment 0.95). Its not possbile for me to set a wlan card to all possible channels (especially in the 5GHz band there are only 4 channels avaliable - ifconfig eth0 channel list). the card supports more channels. who to fix it?
thx.

Martin

sullrich · Dec 10, 2005, 5:42 PM

@MdeWendt:

Hello,

i'm using an WRAP board with the embedded version of pfsense (at the moment 0.95). Its not possbile for me to set a wlan card to all possible channels (especially in the 5GHz band there are only 4 channels avaliable - ifconfig eth0 channel list). the card supports more channels. who to fix it?
thx.

Martin

#1. FreeBSD doesn't have eth0. So perhaps your using a linux box instead.
#2. You're on a really old version.

MdeWendt · Dec 10, 2005, 6:07 PM

Hello,

sorry i mean ath0 (atheros wlan card). whats the newest version for the WRAP box?
in the download section (extra files) i find the http://www.pfsense.com/old/pfSense-Embedded-0.95.img. is it not the newset embedded image?
after playing the half day: why takes it so long if the box is up?

Martin

sullrich · Dec 10, 2005, 6:19 PM

0.95.8

It was in the wrong directory before, look in the updates directory on the mirrors.

It will go back to the correct directory on the next sync.

MdeWendt · Dec 11, 2005, 7:11 AM

Hello,

thx i find the right Version 0.95.8. But there are always this few channel for wlan avaliable (all 802.11g channel but only 4 802.11a 5GHz channels - there should be 10 or so). must i chance a sort of country code?
why is the startup of pfsense in the embedded version on a WRAP box so slow? i tried it on an fast pc and it was much faster.

Martin

hoba · Dec 11, 2005, 9:31 PM

fast=fast and slow=slow. sounds pretty much reasonable for me ;-)

pabloamitelo · Jan 29, 2007, 4:32 PM

@MdeWendt:

Hello,

i'm using an WRAP board with the embedded version of pfsense (at the moment 0.95). Its not possbile for me to set a wlan card to all possible channels (especially in the 5GHz band there are only 4 channels avaliable - ifconfig eth0 channel list). the card supports more channels. who to fix it?
thx.

Martin

There is a solution here:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,854.0.html

And a Countries Codes List:
http://www.unicode.org/onlinedat/countries.html