Greetings everybody, I've just changed my firewall s/w to pfSense - thanks Volker - so that I can create an access point on the P-II machine. The wireless works perfectly with my ThinkPad which has an Intel ipw2100 card in it, However Caleb's Dell Inspiron requires one to restart or re-activate the hostap daemon on the firewall before it allows a connection. i.e. it's a total PITA.
software versions:- Firewall pfSense 1.2-RELEASE-pfSense hostapd v0.4.8 Thinkpad Hardy-Heron KUbuntu ipw2100 version=1.3 Dell Hardy-Heron Ubuntu ipl3945 version=unknown Needless to say the Dell associates, and re-associates, perfectly when in an an Apple Airport environment. grrr! :-( What I'd like to know is whether there is a later version of pfSense which might alleviate the difficulties? And where to get it? I'd also like some help securing the connection with WAP, because I couldn't log in either machine if it's activated. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
