Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
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@BlueKobold:
Perhaps during the long journey the pre assembled card was slightly slipped a bit out of the miniPCIe slot.
The WLE200NX card was detected, I could pickup other SSID's on the card and connect to them but when broadcasting a SSID from the pfSense box it just would not work regardless of what I tried….
That is until I swapped the card to a different PCIe slot which it then started to work perfectly.
Faulty slot maybe? If the card was not seated correctly I don't think I would see that behavior it would be more likely the card just wouldn't function at all.@BlueKobold:
OpenWRT oder DD-WRT for something around $20 - $100.
Using iptables over pf?
I'll pass on that thanks, I use DD-WRT at home on a ASUS AC-68U and can't stand it when compared to pfsense.So my understanding is the intel 7260 card will work just not with AC functionality?
You would just be limited to A/B/G/N?Edit: Quote tags
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I think the suggestion there was to use an external access point running *wrt rather than use a PCIe card in pfSense. Not replace pfSense. That makes a lot of sense in many scenarios.
There is no 802.11AC support in FreeBSD (and hence pfSense) at all but additionally there is limited wireless support in general. The Atheros chipsets are better supported than most but even there I'm not sure there are any drivers for the AC chips, in any mode.
There doesn't appear to be a driver for the Intel 7260 at all as yet. I might exepct it to be supported by the iwn(4) driver but no 7XXX cards are listed:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/iwn/if_iwn.c?revision=285234&view=markup
That's even in head.Additionally the iwn driver does not support access point mode: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=iwn
Steve
Edit: Looks like it may eventually be supported as iwa(4) but no working driver exists yet:
https://github.com/erikarn/freebsd-iwa/blob/master/src/sys/dev/iwa/if_iwa.cA direct port of the iwm driver from OpenBSD seems to exist here, no idea of it's status:
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Using iptables over pf?
I'll pass on that thanks, I use DD-WRT at home on a ASUS AC-68U and can't stand it when compared to pfsense.It was more in the meaning, to get a cheap WLAN AP with DD-WRT, but working and perhaps
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run win2012 server with pfsense in hyper-v. you can use the intel card as a AP through win server.
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run win2012 server with pfsense in hyper-v. you can use the intel card as a AP through win server.
I have tried that with Win2016, but pfsense does not recognize the Card as a WLAN device. For him it is an HNx not ATx.
Any Ideas?
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Are you sure the AC7260 supports hostapd mode? Not working for me in Windows 10.
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My i7 haswell laptop consume 20w or so while idling and +100w while gaming with a dedicated nvidia card. Maybe it is 35w of power usage?
Anyway, it is a sort of problematic card for some users, no ac card is supported and even n cards doesn't work at the rated speed on BSD. Use a dedicated AP. -
Are you sure the AC7260 supports hostapd mode? Not working for me in Windows 10.
You are right. I am using Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 and Hosted network supported is "No".
Do you know a PCIe Card with AC Support and Hosted network Support? I don't want to use a AP.
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For use in the host OS I assume. You realise there are no 802.11AC cards that will work in pfSense?
Steve
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For use in the host OS I assume. You realise there are no 802.11AC cards that will work in pfSense?
Steve
Hi Steve,
yes firstly I will use it in Server 2016. So do anyone know a AC PCIe card which is able to host an AP?
Regards
