I just recently got a Alix board and have setup a pfSense router/gateway/firewall/vpn/access point box. I'm having an odd issue with the "access point" side of that however.
I originally thought the authentication and encryption were the issue, however, for reasons I mention below, it now appears that something is causing hostapd to not function properly when come out of a fresh reboot. When I boot my pfSense box all the wireless settings appear to be working fine and I see hostapd running. However, if a client tries to associate with the network it is immediately disconnected again. When this occurs, these are the messages I see in system.log Nov 18 10:43:58 pfSense hostapd: ath0_wlan0: STA 00:c0:ca:33:91:dd IEEE 802.11: associated Nov 18 10:44:03 pfSense hostapd: ath0_wlan0: STA 00:c0:ca:33:91:dd IEEE 802.11: deassociated When I was attempting to debug this issue, I found that all I had to do was the following commands after a fresh reboot and everything began working: pkill -f "hostapd .*ath0_wlan0" /usr/sbin/hostapd -B /var/etc/hostapd_ath0_wlan0.conf After that, clients can connect and stay connected just fine. I don't find any messages (error or otherwise) before issuing these commands, so I'm not exactly sure why hostapd doesn't start correctly when the system boots. Anyone know of a reason for this to be happening? Or is there something I can do to further diagnose the issue? Thanks, Ryan -- Ryan P Sommers [email protected] _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
