Pfsense access point mode and WDS
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not supported in pfsense or freebsd?
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pfSense.
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any plans to add it any time soon or would it be easy as some GUI change only to support it?
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https://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
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any plans to add it any time soon or would it be easy as some GUI change only to support it?
Yeah GUI additions mostly.
Since the underlying software is already there.Might be needing some hw testing from different vendors to see what issues come from that aswell.
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i have atheros chip and on another machine i have a ralink chip but freebsd doesnt recognize it, probably others have other chips so they can help also test it out
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regarding the below error, i read on some other sites other suffering the same and there was some patch for it in v0.9.4 in madwifi drivers so does pfsense use that or an older driver as currently changing the speed and duplex for wifi still fails
hostapd: ath0_wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Fetching hardware channel/rate support not supported. -
So wait. You have read what will resolve it (updating your drivers) and haven't tried that yet?
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regarding the below error, i read on some other sites other suffering the same and there was some patch for it in v0.9.4 in madwifi drivers so does pfsense use that or an older driver as currently changing the speed and duplex for wifi still fails
The madwifi drivers are Linux drivers. pfsense is based on FreeBSD which is not Linux.
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So wait. You have read what will resolve it (updating your drivers) and haven't tried that yet?
It's not as simple as "updating your drivers" like in the windows or even linux world. In FreeBSD the drivers are part of the base package and you can't really "update" them. pfSense 2.0.x is based on FreeBSD 8.1 and has certain drivers whereas pfSense 2.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 and has newer drivers. And no you can't just upgrade FreeBSD and keep pfSense working.
Joel
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im curious what drivers does pfsense use and their version for atheros chips