Ok. Thank you very much. Any advice on how to get it out of the endless boot loop? Or will my path of least resistance be to simply do a fresh install again? Many thanks. On Feb 24, 2016 12:26, "Espen Johansen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do not bridge and do not use same subnet. If you want lan and wlan to talk > add rules for the subnets to talk to each other. > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 19:12 Sean Pohl <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The problem is an endless boot-loop on my pfSense installation after I > > made one > > change to the WLAN interface. > > > > I have an older x86 32 bit machine with three NICs: > > 1. On-board Ethernet > > 2. Ethernet card > > 3. WLAN 801.11g > > > > I was able to configure the WAN & LAN interfaces just fine. When I > > enabled the > > WLAN interface and set about configuring and saving WLAN interface things > > went > > well until I set the WLAN as DHCP. When I did and saved it then the > > monitor > > directly attached to the pfSense box filled completely with random > > characters > > and then it would reboot. During the boot, it would come to the > > "configuring > > WLAN" and then the screen would fill with random characters and reboot > > again. > > > > I read about creating a bridge between a WLAN interface and a LAN > > interface. I > > was able to do that successfully and was able to connect to the WLAN on > > the box > > but it never assigned me an IP address. So, it wasn't until I changed > the > > WLAN > > interface setting to DHCP that it would get into this loop. > > > > Should I just set that WLAN interface to be static and then give it a > fixed > > address in the same subnet as the LAN that I trying to bridge to or > > something > > else? > > > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > > pfSense mailing list > > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
