Make sure you have the appropriate firewall rules on your OPT2 interface to 
allow traffic to pass. 

Also, you mentioned "I don't have a DHCP server on my local LAN, instead I 
configured the built-in pfSense DHCP server with three IP addresses to give 
out". Does that mean you have some static DHCP assignments set but not a 
general DHCP range open?

One more thing, when bridging a wireless interface to a wired one, make sure 
the wired interface has a physical ethernet link to something. I've seen it 
interfere with bridging many times.

Tim Nelson
Systems/Network Support
Rockbochs Inc.
(218)727-4332 x105

----- "William Bulley" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wireless seems to be working, but the most important
> thing (IP address) isn't.  I should say that I am now
> associated with an 11g client (both sides agree with
> this assessment), but I can't get DHCP to hand out a
> pool IP address:
> 
> According to the "Status -> Interfaces" page:
> 
>    OPT2 interface (ath0) 
>    Status     associated 
>    DHCP               up    
>    MAC address        00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
>    IP address 0.0.0.0   
>    Subnet mask        255.0.0.0 
>    Media      autoselect mode 11g <hostap> 
>    Channel    1 
>    SSID               xxxxx
> 
> 
> And pfSense claims the DHCP server is running.
> Yet according to "Status -> DHCP leases" there are none:
> 
>    Diagnostics: DHCP leases
> 
>    IP address   MAC address   Hostname   Start   End   Online   Lease
> Type   
> 
> 
> I am running pfSense 1.2.1 on a Soekris 4801 with a Wistron CM9
> mini-PCI card:
> 
>    ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413,
> RF5413)
>    ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xa0010000-0xa001ffff irq 11 at device
> 14.0 on pci0
>    ath0: [ITHREAD]
>    ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
>    ath0: Ethernet address: 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>    ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 3.6
> 
> 
> I see many of these lines in the pfSense logs and in dmesg output via
> ssh(8):
> 
>    ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 6 (2437 Mhz, flags
> 0x490 hal flags 0x150)
>    ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 12
> 
> 
> I used this URL as a guide:
> 
>    http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Access_Point2
> 
> 
> I don't have a DHCP server on my local LAN, instead I configured the
> built-in
> pfSense DHCP server with three IP addresses to give out.  It is not
> happening.  :-(
> 
> BTW, I have bridged the OPT2 (ath0) interface with the Soekris LAN
> interface.
> 
> Any ideas or thoughts on what I am doing wrong would be most
> appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> web...
> 
> --
> William Bulley                     Email: [email protected]
> 
> 
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> 
> web...
> 
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> 
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