Reboots usually happen when irq is shared and/or memory.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 20:17 Espen Johansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> You might try to put the wlan card in another slot on the motherboard.
> Also use bios to disable stuff like sound card, unused usb ports, Lpt, com
> ports etc.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 20:15 Espen Johansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Remove the wlan card. Then remove config. It sounds like you might have a
>> irq or other resource allocation problem. But without any more details its
>> hard to say.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 19:51 Sean Pohl <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
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