USB wireless?
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infrastructure means uses an Access Point.
I suggest you consider the following alternatives:
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Replace your existing USB WiFi NIC by a TP-LINK TL-WN321G or a Tenda W311U. The first is supported by pfSense 1.2.3 and both are supported by pfSense 2.0. Both can operate as Access Points. Both are available retail where I live for well under the equivalent of US$20. I have used both as APs in my house.
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Put another NIC card in your pfSense card (or swap one of your existing NIC cards for a dual port model) and use your existing Engenius AP connected to the new port.
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If you have a VLAN capable switch, configure the switch so the port connecting to the Engenius is in a separate VLAN from the rest of your ports, configure two suitable VLANs on your pfSense.
The first is definitely the most straightforward. I would forget the third option unless you are prepared to put some effort into learning about VLANs. Note its not recommended to mix VLAN and "non VLAN" traffic on the same physical interface, especially when bridging is involved.
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I will try to swing by microcenter to get the Ten W311U later after work.
I thought about what you recommended but it just too much work on the wired thing. Eventhought, the whole house is wired but certain area where all my toys at only have 1 connection so I have to put another switch there. My pfsense box has 5 NIC total, one built in motherboard and 4 on the PCI nic. The current setting work fine because the kids and wife can access the server box from wifi and wired network. Just the guests are the one that I need to separate from the main network, I may need to use OPT2 just for a networked printer.
where guest and main network can both share the printer but not to see each other. Thank for the help. -
since we are on usb wireless drivers, i am using an ASUS USB-N13 usb wireless adapter, it is recognize and i can set it up as AP, i can see the SSID and i can log in using WPA i can get an ip and everything, the only thing is not working is that i can't access the internet via wireless,
my setup is the opt1 interface set up as static with it is own subnet, i created a rule to allow traffic from any protocol, destination to "source= wlan subnet" still can seem to make it work, my lan works fine
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the only thing is not working is that i can't access the internet via wireless,
Please elaborate on can't access the internet via wireless. There are lots of possible reasons for that. With more information it should be possible to significantly reduce the number of possibilities to consider.
For example, on a wireless client please try # ping -c 3 www.google.com and report the system response. Then try # ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 and report the system response. Please report the IP address of the wireless client system. -
sorry
i can not access the net with a wireless client going thru the AP i created on pfsense, my lan network is 192.168.2.2 (my wired clients can access the net ok), my WLAN is 192.168.201.0 when i connect a client (my laptop) i get an ip 192.168.201.6 which is ok because that is the range on the dhcp server for the WLAN interface. ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 "network is unreachable" , ping -c 3 www.google.com "unknown host"
hopes that makes it a bit clearer
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ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 "network is unreachable"
Suggests your wireless client doesn't have a default route.
ping -c 3 www.google.com "unknown host"
Suggests you can't access a name server - more than likely a consequence of the "unreachable" problem.
What is the IP address of the pfSense WLAN interface? What response do you get if you ping that IP address?
What OS is running on the wireless client?
What Name Server are you expecting your wireless clients to be using?