Stand alone AP - I am happy…...78-)
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I finally Got my stand alone AP built, AND IT IS WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2.0.1-RELEASE (i386)
built on Mon Dec 12 17:53:52 EST 2011
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6CPU Type Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2180 @ 2.00GHz
Home use AP with at least 9 wireless items (a good mix of smart phones, tablets, laptops)
connecting. I have fought with ALL off the shelf standard name brand wireless hardware - wireless routers. Finally found Pfsense back in AUG2012 and built a router, been running great since. I still needed a wireless solution. I first crack at Pfsense wireless ended badly, limited radio signal, connect/disconnects, etc.Started messing w/ dd-wrt and open-wrt. I like the firmwares but still have the same issues with the hardware. I found a x86 version of dd-wrt but had install issues. Or I could go some flavor of linux. BUT I LOVE MY Pfsense, so I tried one last time using a new D-link pci card w/ 3 antennas.
I am not even getting any beacon errors.
WAN, LAN and wireless all bridged together, firewall disabled (I have a main Pfsense router).
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I finally Got my stand alone AP built, AND IT IS WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations.
I tried one last time using a new D-link pci card w/ 3 antennas.
To help others who are looking for supported WiFi cards would you please give the model and revision of the card you used and post the output of pfSense shell command```
pciconf -l -
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pciconf -l
ath0@pci0:4:0:0:
class=0x028000
card0x3a7d1186
chip=0x09851317
rev=0x0
hdr=0x00Card info
D-link
Xtreme N Desktop PCI
Model# DWA-552
H/W ver. A3
F/W ver. 1.70 -
FYI
if anyone is interested.
I use "Fing" on my droid to interrogate my networks. does just about everything, all from my smart phone.
list all IPs and MAC addresses. I can even login into my router from within "Fing"