how to connect pfsense to Wi-Fi?
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@landmass said in how to connect pfsense to Wi-Fi?:
a laptop with 1 nic port and 1 and wi-fi card following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z59_MWWPL-Q
That video says : use one NIC, the 'cable' one and a smart switch and do some VLAN tricks.
Because : he's not using the Wifi NIC.
Because : FreeBSD su*cks when it comes to Wifi NIC (these are made for Windows type OS's and often do not have FreeBSD drivers because : who uses FreeBSD as a desktop PC ?) -
Get a decent access point. I have a Unifi AC Lite.
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With pfSense as a wifi client? There are more options if so.
What wifi device do you have in the laptop?
But, yeah, in general you will be better using an external device of some sort.
Steve
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@stephenw10 I have a Realtek chipset RTL8188EE but also usb adaptor alfa and tp link, but where is the menu for the wi-fi connection? sorry I'm totally noob to pfsense
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If those devices are supported they will appear in Interfaces > Wireless > (Add button).
They need to be added there first before assigning.
You can also check the boot logs to see if they are detected and setup correctly.
Steve
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@landmass for posting Youtube link instead embed it, that way the creator can gain something, really appreciated it. About wifi, I suggest you use semi-managed switcher for VLAN to separate your wifi network(WPA2 in 2 mnts hackable) from lan network.
@Gertjan a long time ago I used FreeBSD as my main os, now I am in love with macOS, hassle-free. -
@akegec said in how to connect pfsense to Wi-Fi?:
@Gertjan a long time ago I used FreeBSD as my main os, now I am in love with macOS, hassle-free.
You're right ! -
@akegec said in how to connect pfsense to Wi-Fi?:
I used FreeBSD as my main os, now I am in love with macOS, hassle-free.
What do you think macOS is built on?
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@jknott said in how to connect pfsense to Wi-Fi?:
What do you think macOS is built on?
NeXTSTEP ;) which was based on the Mach (kernel), and sure had some source from unix BSD.. You seem to imply that it is freebsd derived from that statement.. ;)
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@johnpoz said in how to connect pfsense to Wi-Fi?:
NeXTSTEP ;) which was based on the Mach (kernel), and sure had some source from unix BSD.. You seem to imply that it is freebsd derived from that statement.. ;)
The history of Unix is really messed up. I saw a diagram of the various Unix lineage and it was a real pile of spaghetti. This is due to the origins at AT&T and how they distributed it to colleges etc. for little more than the cost of a tape & shipping. One result was that everyone was borrowing from everyone, at least until SCO started claiming the others were stealing from them, including IBM's JFS, which was originally developed for OS/2 and ported to AIX. Since AIX was IBM's version of Unix, anything on it, including JFS, was "owned" by SCO.
The various BSDs evolved from the original Berkeley Software Division (BSD), which in turn started from what AT&T had provided. Sun also did a lot of development, based on BSD.
It's curious how just about the entire world, other than desktops, runs on some *nix version and most of that is now Linux, all the way from smart watches to the big supercomputers. One of my cousins is a nuclear physicist (he works with neutrinos) and runs Red Hat Linux on both his own notebook computer and on the supercomputer he uses in his work.
Even that helicopter on Mars runs Linux.
