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      parisien
      last edited by

      Hello.

      My pfsense routeur is working perfectly.

      But each time i reboot the computer i have this screen and i have to set the interface again.

      Do you know what can be the problem ?

      Thank you for your help.

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        eri--
        last edited by

        You have to show more from your configuration to be able to give you any advice.

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          parisien
          last edited by

          Hello.

          What can i show you ?

          is there a log that can help ???

          i have 2 network card  (one is wan and one is lan) and one usb rt3070 wlan adaptor that i use as dhcp lan.

          If i know what i can show about my configuration to help, tell me please.

          (i am sorry my english is not good at all. i hope you understand what i say !!)

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            wallabybob
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            My guess is that you are missing a boot loader directive to load the firmware for your USB WLAN card. Consequently the USB WLAN card seems to be missing at startup so the startup code thinks there is a missing interface (run0).

            Try adding the line

            runfw_load="YES"

            to /boot/loader.conf.local (create the file if it doesn't already exist).

            A bit more information is in http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,36453.0.html

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              parisien
              last edited by

              Hello.

              yes i thing that also because i had to unplug and plug again the usb wlan card after boot !!!

              i will try the fix tonight and i tell you.

              Edit : i have a /boot/loader.conf
              i can use it or i have to create also a /boot/loader.conf.local ???

              Also another question.

              My usb wlan is a 3000 mw power. But it seem that i do not receive it more far than other wlan cards.

              Is there a special tweak in the driver of the adaptor to use the full power or the 99% setting on the webgui of opt1 is enough to have full power of the adapter ?

              here is my ifconfig :

              run0: flags=8a43 <up,broadcast,running,allmulti,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 2290
                      ether 00:e1:00:87:c7:a8
                      media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
                      status: running
              run0_wlan0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                      ether 00:e1:00:87:c7:a8
                      inet6 fe80::2e1:ff:fe87:c7a8%run0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
                      inet 192.168.5.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.5.255
                      nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
                      status: running
                      ssid "Open Free Wifi" channel 5 (2432 MHz 11g) bssid 00:e1:00:87:c7:a8
                      country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 scanvalid 60
                      protmode OFF -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs</hostap></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></hostap></up,broadcast,running,allmulti,simplex,multicast>
              

              Thank you for all you help.

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                clarknova
                last edited by

                pfsense parses /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local. The former will be replaced with a system upgrade, so it's recommended you created /boot/loader.conf.local and make your changes there. There is no need to included lines that are already in /boot/loader.conf, and if you have any conflicting settings in /boot/loader.conf.local, I believe they will take precedence.

                db

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                  parisien
                  last edited by

                  It work !!!

                  thank you very much to all

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