[pfSense] Wifi/WAN issues
Hello, I recently purchased and installed a *DCMA-82 IT miniPCI http://store.netgate.com/DCMA-82-Industrial-Temp-80211abg-High-Power-mPCI-Card-FCC-P1073C26.aspx (*Atheros Chipset) wireless card for my Alix 2D3. I was running an older 1.2 era version of PFsense, but decided that I may as well upgrade to the latest 2.1 build. Doing so prompted me to upgrade the BIOS of the Alix from .99 to .99h. All of that worked smoothly and I can boot and run pfSense. The system sees the wireless card and can see wireless networks. I'm trying to setup my a wireless connection as the WAN, so in interfaces I've selected the wireless card (ath0) as the WAN. In configuring the WAN interface, I set the card to infrastructure mode (BSS) and fill in the network I'm trying to join's name (wireless_network). There is no encryption running on the wireless network, so I haven't changed any of that. For whatever reason the WAN network will never come up. If I go to status interfaces, I see that the status says no carrier I setup an open network off of my cell phone and submitted the SSID of my phone's network and I get the same status : no carrier result. What am I doing wrong? As always, all help is very much appreciated, Jeremy ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Wifi/WAN issues
On Mar 6, 2014, at 5:26, Jeremy Bennett jbenn...@hikitechnology.com wrote: What am I doing wrong? You're running a more modern card than supported in pfSense 2.1, which is based on FreeBSD 8.3. Perhaps 2.2 will fix the issue. Jim ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
[pfSense] Automating adding static dhcp reservation and nat port forwarding rules
I'm using pfSense on an ESXi server to provide dhcp and nat port forwarding to my virtual machines running on the same system. So far I'm really pleased with how things are working. The one pain point is that each time I create a new VM I need to go to the pfSense GUI, create a static reservation for the new VM (moving the ip address from the dhcp range to the static range), and set up two port forwarding rules - one for ssh and one for vnc. I'd like to automate that. From some simple searching I see that it is likely possible using the pfSense Developer Shell. So my question is: has anyone done any pieces of this before? I work best from examples and would like to see what someone else has done and tweak it to fit my requirements. Any suggestions? Peter ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Wifi/WAN issues
I spoke to the good folks at Netgate, and they assured me that the card was indeed compatible with 2.1. From what I've seen, they've always been very responsible with the products they sell and they were very helpful when I raised the issue with them. So, that said, any other ideas? On Mar 6, 2014 6:39 AM, Moshe Katz mo...@ymkatz.net wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Jim Thompson j...@netgate.com wrote: You're running a more modern card than supported in pfSense 2.1, which is based on FreeBSD 8.3. Perhaps 2.2 will fix the issue. Jim Jim, The product page on the Netgate site that Jeremy linkedhttp://store.netgate.com/DCMA-82-Industrial-Temp-80211abg-High-Power-mPCI-Card-FCC-P1073C26.aspxto does say Compatible with pfSense. If that's not correct as of right now, shouldn't it be removed, or at least qualified with a version number? Moshe -- Moshe Katz -- mo...@ymkatz.net -- +1(301)867-3732 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
Re: [pfSense] Wifi/WAN issues
On Mar 6, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Jeremy Bennett jbenn...@hikitechnology.com wrote: I spoke to the good folks at Netgate, and they assured me that the card was indeed compatible with 2.1. From what I've seen, they've always been very responsible with the products they sell and they were very helpful when I raised the issue with them. So, that said, any other ideas? Yeah, my mistake. (Note my employer…) I thought you had a more modern Atheros card. These things typically turn out to be RF issues. poor connection of the pigtail, high signal levels in the environment, etc. In your particular case, you report: In configuring the WAN interface, I set the card to infrastructure mode (BSS) and fill in the network I'm trying to join's name (wireless_network”).” and If I go to status interfaces, I see that the status says no carrier I setup an open network off of my cell phone and submitted the SSID of my phone's network and I get the same status : no carrier result.” So we don’t know if your card is even receiving beacon frames. Can you drop to a shell and run ifconfig wlan0 scan” (for whatever the name of your interface is)? Jim ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
