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I need to buy an MPCIE WiFi card for a specific use case.

I know it's preferred to use dedicated separate WIFI Access Points with OpnSense and Pfsense which is why I have a few Deco M5 in use with my other box at home.

But I'd still like to try establish which MPCIE WiFi card are widely being used among the few try hards that have gone against the wind and installed them in their opnsense boxes

Please include model numbers if poss

Any recommendations?

[os-sensei]

Is it safe to use the SunnyValley Next Generation Firewall Extensions / Plugin for OPNsense (ZENARMOR).

Plugins:
os-sensei
os-sensei-updater
os-sunnyvalley

Do we know if they collect data from our routers, if so what, and has anyone actually vetted the software properly to see what's collected if anything?

I only ask as i usually use all the usual stuff on opnsense and pfsense and have never used ZenArmor before, any ideas?

[local network]

Guys, I've got Home Assistant setup and working via my Opnsense router, DuckDNS and Lets Encrypt, enabling me to remotely access my Home Assistant securely with encryption while I'm out and about (outside my home network), which is great.

I'd like to be able to access my personal ******@duckdns.org URL securely over my 'local network' too whilst maintaining the secure HTTPS certification.   I know it can be done via this router or pfsense but I just cant find a tutorial explaining the correct procedure.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please.   ;)

Can anyone tell me if theirs a way to forward HOST name information from my Opnsense routers DHCP services on to my PiHole.  I can only ever get CLIENT IP address information when viewing PiHoles query log.  I have to keep looking up what IP belongs to what device via Opnsense DHCP list each time I'm investigating alerts and stuff on PiHole.

It would be nice if I could as I don't really want to keep logging in to one device and then having to log in to the another for confirmation.

Hi guys I've been using OPNSENSE with an internal m.2 Qualcomm Atheros Wireless NFA222 card (Atheros AR9462) all the way up to OpnSense 20.1 and its been working perfectly fine.  I've recently upgraded from 20.1 up to 20.7.3 and it was still functioning fine for days.

I decided to do a Reset to factory defaults now my system was upgraded and start a fresh, only to find that is not properly detecting my WIFI card properly now, or allowing me to configure it.

Does anyone know if the Devs have removed anything from 20.7.3 that might have been available in 20.1 which might be causing this?

Am I going to need to start looking for Atheros files and including them in 20.7.3?  :)

[Can anyone tell me how to get my Wifi working using this card.]

Can anyone tell me how to get my Wifi working using this card.

PRIMARY PROBLEM:

I've tried it in Opnsense v16.7 / v17.1 and both detect the card and allow me to effectively configure it the same way I can configure my existing USB WiFi dongle, but the Atheros M.2 card itself is not producing any WiFi signal for any of my devices to see. I'm also receiving the following errors in my log.

I'm also getting the following error in my logs non stop, which I'm assuming is related to the fault.:

also
Sep 14 14:41:14    kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 0)
Sep 14 14:41:14    kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
Sep 14 14:41:14    kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 0)
Sep 14 14:41:14    kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)
Sep 14 14:41:14    kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 0)
Sep 14 14:41:14    kernel: ath0: stuck beacon; resetting (bmiss count 4)

Again, the card is:
- Qualcomm Atheros Wireless NFA222 (Atheros AR9462).
- Qualcomm Atheros QCNFA222 | PPD-QCNFA222 | Foxconn | NGFF| 168c0034 | abgn |   Atheros AR9462

[WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize()WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize()]

I'm currently running pfsense version 2.3 stable, which has been great.  Today I decided that I would try out pfsense latest version 2.4 alpha (Experimental) and while I'm at it give Opnsense a try for the first time.

I tried the following installation images of Opnsense in case one had a feature preventing my installation from completing:

- OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img
- OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img

- OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-serial-amd64.img
- OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-serial-i386.img

And during my USB installation using each of those images the installation halts and the last thing it says on the screen is this:

WARNING: attempt to domain_add(bluetooth) after domainfinalize()
WARNING: attempt to domain_add(netgraph) after domainfinalize()

My system meets all of the requirements of the recommended hardware specification to run this platform, but I seem to be getting this error over and over again before I can even get to a point that i can install Opnsense; its not looking good so far.

Any ideas why this keeps happening, I've never seen this before ...