USB wireless?
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Thanks Wallabybob. The deal killer here is lack of hostap support, so I guess I am back to square 1 :(
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Can anyone comment on how likely it will be for the hostap mode to be fixed in 8.x? I purchased a TP-LINK USB dongle hoping to use it as an AP interface, but it only crashes my pfsense 2.0 box when I try to connect.
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I am aware of a FreeBSD patch that at least makes the rum driver better behaved. With the patch I haven't been able to get the rum driver to panic my 2x800MHz PIII system but I know of someone who was seeing panics on their q6600 system when running a shell script to repeatedly 'netif start' a rum interface. Its nice to have the system 'bulletproof' but running such a script is a pretty unusual thing to do. I'm hoping the patch will be accepted on the grounds that although it doesn't make the rum driver bulletproof it appears to considerably improve the robustness of the rum driver.
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Can anyone comment on how likely it will be for the hostap mode to be fixed in 8.x? I purchased a TP-LINK USB dongle hoping to use it as an AP interface, but it only crashes my pfsense 2.0 box when I try to connect.
The rum driver didn't exist until 8.x. It isn't there in 8.1 as far as I can tell, so if it will ever be fixed, it may not be anytime soon. Certainly not in pfSense 2.0.
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The rum driver didn't exist until 8.x. It isn't there in 8.1 as far as I can tell, so if it will ever be fixed, it may not be anytime soon. Certainly not in pfSense 2.0.
You might be thinking of the run (RUN) driver. I have two different USB sticks I can plug into my pfSense 1.2.3 system and both are attached by the rum (RUM) driver.
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Ah, yeah, you're right. That's what I get for replying to a thread so early on a Saturday :-)
Actually I'm not even sure what I was thinking of there… They didn't even mention a device type in that post, just the model of that device.
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I haven't had a chance to test yet, but this appears to address the rum driver issues:
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/839
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I managed to get AP mode working, in 2.0 BETA, using a D-Link DWA-140. I was able to pick one up off of eBay for around $15 with the shipping. The only thing that I had to do was to make a file named /boot/loader.conf.local which contains the following line:
runfw_load="YES"
You can read more about that requirement here:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=27744.0
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Since we are at wireless question, I new to pfsense, I just got my wyse system install with pfsense 2.0 RC1.
I plug a USB Wireless G dongle from Airlink. I able to see it in the interface and enable from the interface let call it OPT4Wireless. So I setup all the requirement for it to act as AP. I bridge LAN and OPT4wireless together. Is there any else I need to do to turn on the wireless signal. On the Dash board, I can see the OPT4wireless interface but it show disabled. How do I enable my wireless. Any tips from here. Thank. -
OPT4 wireless interface is enabled in the GUI?
Perhaps you are trying to set a characteristic your device doesn't support and it doesn't enable?
Which Airlink device are you trying to use and (more importantly) what FreeBSD device name does it have? Apparently some Airlink USB devices use a Zydas chipset and FreeBSD (and hence pfSense) doesn't support AP mode on that chipset.
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wallabybob, you are right the USB wireless doesn't support as AP. If you don't mind, may I ask what is the infrastructure on one of the choices? I not familiar with that term. I know what an ad hoc is but have never use it. My current setup work fine. modem-pfsense-switch-AP. All dhcp and filter handled by pfsense. I just want to create a separate wireless zone for guest because my current wireless setup require MAC filter. It just too work to add them to the filtered list. My wireless AP is an Engenius EB3500, I think it has VLAN setting in it. I have never use VLAN before so I don't know it can separate the guest from the main network. I don't want to put a MAC filter on the guest, just ssid/password would be fine. If VLAN can solve my issue, then my next task is openvpn. Thank you for fast reply.
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infrastructure means uses an Access Point.
I suggest you consider the following alternatives:
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Replace your existing USB WiFi NIC by a TP-LINK TL-WN321G or a Tenda W311U. The first is supported by pfSense 1.2.3 and both are supported by pfSense 2.0. Both can operate as Access Points. Both are available retail where I live for well under the equivalent of US$20. I have used both as APs in my house.
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Put another NIC card in your pfSense card (or swap one of your existing NIC cards for a dual port model) and use your existing Engenius AP connected to the new port.
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If you have a VLAN capable switch, configure the switch so the port connecting to the Engenius is in a separate VLAN from the rest of your ports, configure two suitable VLANs on your pfSense.
The first is definitely the most straightforward. I would forget the third option unless you are prepared to put some effort into learning about VLANs. Note its not recommended to mix VLAN and "non VLAN" traffic on the same physical interface, especially when bridging is involved.
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I will try to swing by microcenter to get the Ten W311U later after work.
I thought about what you recommended but it just too much work on the wired thing. Eventhought, the whole house is wired but certain area where all my toys at only have 1 connection so I have to put another switch there. My pfsense box has 5 NIC total, one built in motherboard and 4 on the PCI nic. The current setting work fine because the kids and wife can access the server box from wifi and wired network. Just the guests are the one that I need to separate from the main network, I may need to use OPT2 just for a networked printer.
where guest and main network can both share the printer but not to see each other. Thank for the help. -
since we are on usb wireless drivers, i am using an ASUS USB-N13 usb wireless adapter, it is recognize and i can set it up as AP, i can see the SSID and i can log in using WPA i can get an ip and everything, the only thing is not working is that i can't access the internet via wireless,
my setup is the opt1 interface set up as static with it is own subnet, i created a rule to allow traffic from any protocol, destination to "source= wlan subnet" still can seem to make it work, my lan works fine
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the only thing is not working is that i can't access the internet via wireless,
Please elaborate on can't access the internet via wireless. There are lots of possible reasons for that. With more information it should be possible to significantly reduce the number of possibilities to consider.
For example, on a wireless client please try # ping -c 3 www.google.com and report the system response. Then try # ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 and report the system response. Please report the IP address of the wireless client system. -
sorry
i can not access the net with a wireless client going thru the AP i created on pfsense, my lan network is 192.168.2.2 (my wired clients can access the net ok), my WLAN is 192.168.201.0 when i connect a client (my laptop) i get an ip 192.168.201.6 which is ok because that is the range on the dhcp server for the WLAN interface. ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 "network is unreachable" , ping -c 3 www.google.com "unknown host"
hopes that makes it a bit clearer
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ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 "network is unreachable"
Suggests your wireless client doesn't have a default route.
ping -c 3 www.google.com "unknown host"
Suggests you can't access a name server - more than likely a consequence of the "unreachable" problem.
What is the IP address of the pfSense WLAN interface? What response do you get if you ping that IP address?
What OS is running on the wireless client?
What Name Server are you expecting your wireless clients to be using?
