Please test wireless in latest snapshots

vinpep

Trying to use rum0 as an AP bridged to LAN. can see rum0 as opt1 but no wireless option under interfaces.
where should I be looking? or is this a bug that wireless options are recognized ?

wallabybob

Trying to use rum0 as an AP bridged to LAN. can see rum0 as opt1 but no wireless option under interfaces.

Looks as if /etc/inc/globals.inc needs to be updated to include the new WLAN interfaces supported in FreeBSD 7.0: add rum to the WLAN interface list on the line beginning "wireless_regex" => . From the Interfaces menu, (assign) you will probably need to delete the interface and then add it again to have the wireless capabilities displayed.

Note to pfSense developers: the two VLAN lists in the same file possibly need to be updated also. Does et (the Agere ET1310 driver) need to be in one or more of the VLAN lists?

gigli

I don't know is this a bug. I have a pfsense box with tree nics, wan, lan, opt1 connected to a zyxel wireless router only used as a wireless accesspoint. With some of the snapshots of 1.2.1 it got disconnected, on the wireless side, and i have to restart the firewall, this never happened in 1.2. This can happen after 1 h or after 1 day. Another thing is that once or twice my firewall has locked and i cannot connect either by web interface or ssh and with no internet access whatsoever.

Is now using 1.2.1-rc1 build aug 25.

vinpep

Editing /etc/inc/globals.inc allowed wirless options for rum0 to be set
Thanks Again !!

sullrich

Interface added, thanks!!

misteragony

Hello,

I just tested the latest snapshot, and my wireless linksys card (based on a ralink chipset) still doesn't work. I can assign the interface, configure it as an access point with WPA. However under status -> interfaces I still get 'no carrier'. That was the issue with the previous snapshots as well. The card works under the stable version of pfsense however, although then there is the issue that the wireless connection fails after some minutes of "high bandwith usage" (copying a file over wireless usually induces the problem). Disabling and re-enabling the interface fixes the problem however. Still, a bit anoying.

I replaced the wireless nic with another ralink card but I have exactly the same issues. So it's not a faulty nic.

Best regards,
Jan

cmb

Ralink cards should now work, the ral driver in FreeBSD 7.0 wouldn't work with the order we use to bring up interfaces while every other driver does. That's been fixed to an order that works for everything though.

jmorey

I've put up pfSense-20081002-0148.iso.gz a few days ago and everything seemed fine but i just noticed that the wireless is not working. When trying to connect even the SSID is not being broadcast. 1.2 works fine. Following is the interface information. Please let me know if I can put anything else up.

<opt1><descr>Wireless</descr>
<if>ath0</if>
<wireless><standard>11g</standard>
<mode>hostap</mode>
<protmode>off</protmode>
<ssid>Toontown</ssid>
<channel>8</channel>
<authmode></authmode>
<txpower>99</txpower>
<distance><wpa><macaddr_acl></macaddr_acl>
<auth_algs>2</auth_algs>
<wpa_mode>2</wpa_mode>
<wpa_key_mgmt>WPA-PSK</wpa_key_mgmt>
<wpa_pairwise>CCMP TKIP</wpa_pairwise>
<wpa_group_rekey>60</wpa_group_rekey>
<wpa_gmk_rekey>3600</wpa_gmk_rekey>
<passphrase>**********</passphrase>
<ext_wpa_sw></ext_wpa_sw>
<enable></enable></wpa>
<apbridge><enable></enable></apbridge>

cmb

jmorey: what happens when you run /tmp/ath0_setup.sh from a command prompt?

jmorey

After posting I saw and downloaded pfSense-20081011-0859.iso.gz. Not surprisingly my problem has changed. Since things seem better with it here is what it is doing. A laptop running Vista is able to connect without problems. My Archos 605 WiFi errors out. It will connect to 1.2. The pfSense log shows the fillowing:

Oct 13 09:40:16 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:16:dc:50:c4:1b IEEE 802.11: deassociated
Oct 13 09:40:01 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:16:dc:50:c4:1b WPA: group key handshake
completed (RSN)
Oct 13 09:39:54 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:16:dc:50:c4:1b WPA: pairwise key handshake
completed (RSN)
Oct 13 09:39:54 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:16:dc:50:c4:1b WPA: received EAPOL-Key 2/4
Pairwise with unexpected replay counter
Oct 13 09:39:54 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:16:dc:50:c4:1b WPA: received EAPOL-Key 4/4
Pairwise with unexpected replay counter
Oct 13 09:39:54 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:16:dc:50:c4:1b IEEE 802.11: associated
Oct 13 09:39:51 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:16:dc:50:c4:1b IEEE 802.11: associated

The output of ath0_setup.sh is:

+ + grep hostapd
+ grep ath0
/bin/ps awwuxx
+ + xargsawk kill { print $2 }

+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 down
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 mode 11g
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 channel 8
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 -mediaopt turbo
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 ssid Toontown
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 -hidessid
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 -mediaopt adhoc
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 protmode off
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 mode 11g pureg
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 apbridge
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 -wme
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 authmode open wepmode off
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 txpower 99
ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 mediaopt hostap
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 mtu 1500
+ /sbin/ifconfig ath0 up
+ /usr/sbin/hostapd -B /var/etc/hostapd_ath0.conf
Configuration file: /var/etc/hostapd_ath0.conf

Thanks for any help.