[pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Jeroen
I recently got a new laptop with an Intel wireless chipset; It seems to have trouble connecting to PFSense. I does connect but keeps rekeying which in turn causes slow response times. Nov 9 12:29:12 hostapd: ath0: STA 00:18:de:71:4a:1c WPA: group key handshake completed (WPA) Nov 9 12:29:12 hos

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Yuri Lukin
Jeroen wrote .. > I recently got a new laptop with an Intel wireless chipset; It seems > to have trouble > connecting to PFSense. I does connect but keeps rekeying which in turn > causes slow > response times. > > Nov 9 12:29:12hostapd: ath0: STA 00:18:de:71:4a:1c WPA: group key > handshak

RE: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Holger Bauer
Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:33 PM > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness > > I recently got a new laptop with an Intel wireless chipset; > It seems to have trouble connecting to PFSense. I does > connect but keeps rekeying which in turn

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Jeroen
On 11/9/06, Holger Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you using the built in windows wireless zero config tool or the intel client utility? Try to use the intel tool. I have a notebook with an intel abg card and it works fine when using the tool. I've tried both with the same result. Using

RE: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Holger Bauer
Try setting WPA Pairwise to AES. Holger > -Original Message- > From: Jeroen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 3:33 PM > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness > > On 11/9/06, Holger Bauer <

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Jeroen
On 11/9/06, Holger Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try setting WPA Pairwise to AES. Unfortunately that doesn't work either. I just connected my old Linksys wireless bridge to an available ethernet on the firewall and bridged it with the LAN. I have a perfectly stable connection then. So the p

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Yuri Lukin
Jeroen wrote .. > On 11/9/06, Holger Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try setting WPA Pairwise to AES. > > > > Unfortunately that doesn't work either. I just connected my old > Linksys wireless bridge to an available ethernet on the firewall and > bridged it with the LAN. I have a perfectly st

RE: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Davis
I've had customers tell me that they have had problems with the Intel chipset connecting to AP's also. -Original Message- From: Yuri Lukin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:11 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Jeroen
On 11/9/06, Yuri Lukin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can the laptop connect if you disable all encryption on the AP? I also tried that, it does connect but has the same stability problems as with encryption. It connects and works for a moment then stalls and comes back to live again after about 10

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Yuri Lukin
Jeroen wrote .. > > I also tried that, it does connect but has the same stability problems > as > with encryption. It connects and works for a moment then stalls and > comes back to live again after about 10-20 seconds. According to windows > the connection never stops > So the laptop still say

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-09 Thread Jeroen
On 11/9/06, Yuri Lukin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the laptop still says its associated even though your network connection drops? Is there anything in the pfsense logs? Could it be that the Intel card is in power save mode and if so, can you disable and try again? A wireless packet capture w

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-10 Thread Yuri Lukin
Jeroen wrote .. > > This however puzzles me. There must be something wrong with the windows > drivers and/or settings. I'll try disabling powersaving all together > tomorrow. Now > it's time to sleep ;) > > Thanks for now! > > -- > Jeroen This is strange indeed. Here's something I found in the rel

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Buechler
Jeroen wrote: This however puzzles me. There must be something wrong with the windows drivers and/or settings. Make sure you have the latest Intel drivers. I have a Centrino laptop with a 2915abg card, which I believe should use the same drivers as yours, and I had all kinds of weird (and

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-10 Thread Jeroen
On 11/10/06, Chris Buechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Make sure you have the latest Intel drivers. I have a Centrino laptop with a 2915abg card, which I believe should use the same drivers as yours, and I had all kinds of weird (and varying) problems with every AP I tried. A driver update Int

Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless weirdness

2006-11-10 Thread Yuri Lukin
Jeroen wrote .. > > I've tried the latest drivers and fresh Windows XP Pro SP 2 install. > And unfortunately > that didn't help. > > However... It really seems the problem is the power saving option. I > found this article: > http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-006205.htm > > An