Cant see other Wifi Clients.
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In the First post i had mentioned that it is enabled.
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Then I guess it's broken. Blame FreeBSD for listing a broken implementation in their HCL.
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All my working configs use Atheros.. I wouldn't waste my time trying to use a usb wifi interface. Especially RALink from the looks of the forum.
Part of your problem looks to be related to the bridge. You do lose some capabilities when using a bridge interface I have found.
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wel mine is a internal card.
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I don't apply the "pfil" patch in any recent configurations and i am not sure its needed anymore. I know there are inherent issues with bridging interfaces. You lose the granularity of port control for one and i know for RRD you lose stats for the individual interfaces, which is fine for a bridge. But i could also see this having other issues like you are experiencing. If you build a non-bridged AP is it still an issue? Could it be a rule not being properly applied on the correct interface. Things to check.. I usually turn off NAT/firewall until i get mine tuned.
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Have you tried disabling the firewall temporary(for testing) under System>Advanced>Firewall/NAT>Disable Firewall
Break the problem down to the simplest parts.
It sounds like you had the RALink card going for 6 months so I seriously doubt it is a hardware issue. Probably a bad setting somewhere.
You don't mention what your clients machines OS are and if Windows you obviously have more to troubleshoot.
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I have had this problem since i installed the card. which has been about 6 months. Ill try disabling the firewall to see if it works. Well before with a normal AP before it died everything was fine, and its a mix of windows 7,8 and android. And i dont think its windows because when they are wired to the network they work fine.
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Have you tried turning off the bridge and seeing if the wireless clients can communicate with the bridge off?
I have a pfSense system with an Atheros card and had a lot of problems getting both the bridge AND the inter-client communications to work some years ago. Since then I've disabled the internal Atheros card. These days I've found that the solution in the pfSense manual works best - using the LAN side of a commercial hardware AP.
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+1, the bridge is just pointless and really bad idea in general.
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In the past there have been bugs relating to Wifi encryption. (WPA-Supplicant)
When i say break it down to just essentials I mean no encryption. Just the bare basics.
Just for testing of course.