After a hardware upgrade I ended up with a spare mini pc. Noticed these two icons and thought I might be able to use it as a WiFi access point with VLANs using OPNsense.

Is that possible? If so, what do I even need to buy to plug into there?

I don’t need it to do any fancy dhcp, dns or firewall stuff, I just need a WiFi access point with support for VLANs.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 days ago

    Intel AX200/210 cards do work on FreeBSD but people are having problems with it in AP mode, even on Linux. I didn’t try, but I planned to do the similar thing on NanoPi R5S with OpenWRT and gave up after the research.

    • @Cort
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      12 days ago

      iirc anything after 802.11ac doesn’t allow AP mode on client devices. Something about not being able to scan for restricted channels in 5/6ghz