I give up
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I have been trying to get wireless hostap working reliably with Alix boards for few months without success. I tried a usb wireless adapter based on Ralink 3070 (run driver) as well as a Winston CM9 card.
In both cases everything works great at first (beside the annoying flood of "WPA: EAPOL-Key timeout" in the logs), but a crash and reboot is guaranteed within few days. If I enable traffic shaping I will get a reboot at least every 24 hours. If use an external AP everything is rock solid.
Is wifi support really this bad in FreeBSD? Hopefully it will be better in 9.x, but even then, it will be a while before psSense gets there.
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I'm running since years accesspoints based on pfSense on ALIX boards.
I always use these cards based on atheros chipsets :
http://www.pcengines.ch/wlm54sag23.htm
http://www.pcengines.ch/wlm54g23.htmWell they seem to be EOL now.
But i generally have good experiences with atheros based cards.
Bad experiences with almost everything USB based. -
I guess I just had bad luck. I'll stick with the external AP for now and maybe when pfSense moves to 9.x I'll try again :)
