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    • G
      geten
      last edited by

      Hi!

      I'm having problems with a TP-LINK TL-WN781ND pci-e card which i'm using in hostap mode. Or rather, other devices are having problems with it ;) In my HTPC i have a TL-WN651G (an older 802.11g pci card). The HTPC can connect perfectly.

      But other devices, like my gf's HTC Desire, Kindle and Macbook Air as well as my Samsung S3, can't connect. For example, the S3 says "authentication error occurred". I've tried many different kind of configurations (always WPA2 though, which is a must imo. Tried TKIP, AES and both as WPA Pairwise).

      I'm running pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64) and i'm running the TL-WN781ND in 802.11g mode only.

      I recently rebuild my router into new hardware. However, i was previously running the same pfSense version with a TL-WN651G in hostap and then all the above mentioned devices could connect.

      I can't find any relevant debug information in the logs.

      Has anyone had similar problems with TL-WN781ND or have suggestion for me to move forward in troubleshooting this?

      Here's my current ifconfig output for the device:

      
      ath0_wlan0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
              ether f8:d1:11:61:28:85
              inet6 fe80::fad1:11ff:fe61:2885%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
              inet 10.0.10.1 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 10.0.10.31
              nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: running
              ssid goatee channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid f8:d1:11:61:28:85
              regdomain NONE country SE indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
              privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit
              txpower 30 scanvalid 60 protmode OFF burst -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs</hostap></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast> 
      
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      • G
        geten
        last edited by

        Sigh.. seems like i have to find another card then. Won't be super easy since i need a low profile pci-e card  :-\

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          wallabybob
          last edited by

          Have you tried a snapshot build of pfSense 2.1? 2.1 includes much more up to date device drivers than any of the releases,

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            nfz300zx
            last edited by

            @geten:

            Hi!

            I'm having problems with a TP-LINK TL-WN781ND pci-e card which i'm using in hostap mode. Or rather, other devices are having problems with it ;) In my HTPC i have a TL-WN651G (an older 802.11g pci card). The HTPC can connect perfectly.

            But other devices, like my gf's HTC Desire, Kindle and Macbook Air as well as my Samsung S3, can't connect. For example, the S3 says "authentication error occurred". I've tried many different kind of configurations (always WPA2 though, which is a must imo. Tried TKIP, AES and both as WPA Pairwise).

            I'm running pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64) and i'm running the TL-WN781ND in 802.11g mode only.

            I recently rebuild my router into new hardware. However, i was previously running the same pfSense version with a TL-WN651G in hostap and then all the above mentioned devices could connect.

            I can't find any relevant debug information in the logs.

            Has anyone had similar problems with TL-WN781ND or have suggestion for me to move forward in troubleshooting this?

            Here's my current ifconfig output for the device:

            
            ath0_wlan0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                    ether f8:d1:11:61:28:85
                    inet6 fe80::fad1:11ff:fe61:2885%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
                    inet 10.0.10.1 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 10.0.10.31
                    nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: running
                    ssid goatee channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid f8:d1:11:61:28:85
                    regdomain NONE country SE indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
                    privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit
                    txpower 30 scanvalid 60 protmode OFF burst -apbridge dtimperiod 1 -dfs</hostap></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast> 
            

            Hi, sorry to hijack your thread but can I ask how you got the card to work? I have the same card and pfsense does not detect the card at all.

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              francisuk22
              last edited by

              @geten
              Have you tryed different wireless channels and also dos it work as a AP?

              Also there are two versons to this card http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?categoryid=243&model=TL-WN781ND

              http://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN781ND_v1 - V1
              http://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN781ND_v2 - V2

              @geten:

              Sigh.. seems like i have to find another card then. Won't be super easy since i need a low profile pci-e card  :-\

              I know how you feel, Best thing to do is get a netgear WPN311 USB and use it as a temporary.

              2.0.2-RELEASE (amd64) - Dell OptiPlex GX520 SFF @ Intel P4 HT 3.0GHz
              Cisco SR224 24-port Switch (4 PCs, 1 Wireless AP, 2 Consoles)

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                nfz300zx
                last edited by

                Hi,

                Yep I had checked my card and i had the V2 version - card looks the same but differnet chipset. got a Dlink card and that works great.

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                  geos51
                  last edited by

                  Solved. With this pci-e wireless card I couldn't establish contention. My PC runs windows 7 64 bit. So I uninstalled the tp-link drivers and I installed atheros, the chipset drivers, from atheros site. Everything works OK, so far!

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