HyperV passing wireless adapter for WiFi WAN
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Long story short, my ISP went down for 3 days recently. I needed a way to have a backup. At the house, I'm able to pick up the ISP free hotspot. What I'm hoping to do is be able to connect to the ISP hotspot using Pfsense as a failover whenever internet goes down and if nothing else bypass the datacap limit I run out of my 1TB for the month. I can set the host to connect to both ethernet and WiFi of the hotpot but would need to figure out how to pass the sign in portion. I can get to the sign in screen but whenever I sign in it doesn't want to authenticate
The Host machine have dual 2.5Gb ethernet as well as an Intel WX200.
It is hardwired to my network. I run other VM on this so dedicating the entire machine to Pfsense is not an option at this time.
In the VM the virtual switch that's tagged to the wireless card obviously doesn't know that it's a wireless adapter. My thought was
What is my best option to make this work?
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@cheapie408 said in HyperV passing wireless adapter for WiFi WAN:
connect to the ISP hotspot using Pfsense as a failover
In the pass, I have successfully used a device like this...to work with pfSense, it must have en Ethernet port like here...
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@NollipfSense I actually have one sitting here but the reception is horrible, perhaps I need to get me a better one. That might be easiest.
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@cheapie408 said in HyperV passing wireless adapter for WiFi WAN:
I can set the host to connect to both ethernet and WiFi of the hotpot but would need to figure out how to pass the sign in portion. I can get to the sign in screen but whenever I sign in it doesn't want to authenticate
What sort of sign in are you hitting there? Something is running a captive portal? pfSense has no way to login like that directly.
Steve
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@cheapie408 said in HyperV passing wireless adapter for WiFi WAN:
@NollipfSense I actually have one sitting here but the reception is horrible, perhaps I need to get me a better one. That might be easiest.
Maybe keep an eye out for a throwaway satellite dish on trash day.
