Cant get wlan to work with pfsence (Newb)

De1ta · May 19, 2006, 1:56 PM

Hi!

First of all great software! Love the trafic shaper.

I am using WRAP 1.C-2 and pfsence 1.0 BETA3 and its working greate, but now i want to use my box as AP. I bought me a miniPCI Wlan card and mounted into the box with antenna. I cant get my Wlan to work. The card is Gigabyte GN-WIKG. I try to connect to it with my laptop and i can find the wireless network but cant connect to it. I tryed many diffrent settings on the Wlan. Last thing i tryed was to use static IP instead of DHCP and then i could connect but not abel to ping the pfsence box. The Firewall is completely open from Wlan -> WAN.

Im no computer expert so please use easy terms ;)

Mabye my Wlan card aren't supported by the system?
Mabye i need to install drivers for it? (and IF, how do i do that? Got a driver CD but got a hard time fitting it into my WRAP box, lol)

I hope i explained so you can understand.

//Delta

hoba · May 19, 2006, 2:11 PM

Not sure concerning the model of your wlan card but if pfSense is seeing it it should be supported. However Beta3 is a bit old and there were some fixes included for wireless settings in beta4. Please upgrade to the latest version and try again.

De1ta · May 22, 2006, 2:36 PM

Is there an update for embeded systems BETA4 out yet? Can only find the "pfSense-Full-Update-BETA4.tgz" and this dont work. Would be nice to update trough the WebGUI so i dont need to take the box apart to get the CF-card out.

sullrich · May 22, 2006, 7:09 PM

@De1ta:

Is there an update for embeded systems BETA4 out yet? Can only find the "pfSense-Full-Update-BETA4.tgz" and this dont work. Would be nice to update trough the WebGUI so i dont need to take the box apart to get the CF-card out.

Reflash using the embedded version. There hasnt been an update for embedded in some time and there is no guarantee that there ever will be.

De1ta · Aug 23, 2006, 3:39 PM

Going to reuse this old post. I didn't use my Wlan that much when i started this post so i let it be nonworking, but now i want to get it to work again ;)

This is the issue:

When i use the webGUI i do: Interface -> Assign -> (+) -> Then i get a "OPT1" and can chose from sis0, sis1, sis2, ral0 the lates one (ral0) is my wlancard so the machine have found it, but when i got the Wlan tab i cant chose that card there only sis, sis1, sis2…. =/

Why is this? Is my wlan card not supported?

edit btw i upgraded to latest version of pfsense now, RC2