Upgraded to latest version but cannot connect firesticks to WIFI

[pingumasta (Mike Williams)]

Hi,
I have updated IPfire after is has been working for years and now i am unable to connect 4 x Firesticks to the internet.
Im grasping at straws after spending over 6 hours trying to resolve this issue.
I have undertaken the following:
Changed the WAP point
Factory reset the WAP point
Factory reset a Firestick
Reset the managed switch

IPFire setup:
Stopped using ISP provided DNS servers and use Google’s
Stopped Geoblocking
Forced an IP/Gateway/DNS into a firestick rather than use DHCP

I have connected a Firestick to a mobile phone using a hotspot and it connects fine.
All the PCs and phones connect to the WAP point ok and can connect to the internet.
The Firesticks connect to the WAP ok but cannot resolve an internet connection since i have updated the firewall.
Am i missing something in the update or am i having a blond moment

[roberto (Roberto Peña)]

Hi @pingumasta, good afternoon.

A quick answer. Have you checked this?

Blue Access - The IPFire Wiki

You may have forgotten to whitelist the MAC. It won’t be the first time that has happened to me

Tell Us something.

Regards.

[pingumasta (Mike Williams)]

Im not using WIFI on the blue zone. Its sitting on the green zone ATM.

[jon]

try digging through the various logs for Firestick IP addresses or MAC addresses. Maybe there is a hint in there…

menu Logs → Firewall Logs or menu Logs → System Logs

Also do you have any Firewall Rules enabled?

[klx-v (Lou Reco)]

Same issue here the way I got it to work was to turn off the proxy.

[scottcline]

Make sure the signal is decent. Try both 2.4 and 5. Wifi congestion could be part of the problem.

[ipcopmann]

When you say latest version, you mean 2.27 cu 163, not testing version 2.27 cu 164?
There is a bug in cu 163 to do with USB due to a Linux kernel regression:

Update 158 --> to 161 problems with USB Ethernet Adpater

Hi, meanwhile, I get the impression we are dealing with two different problems: Your case definitely sounds like the XHCI problem a patch is available for, and I believe shipping a kernel containing this patch should solve the issue. In my case, there are no log messages in /var/log/bootlog apart from the usual ones. I only noticed the MAC and S/N of the adapter changed after rebooting into the new kernel, but that’s it. Perhaps the aforementioned XHCI patch will solve this as well (collater…

[scottcline]

Thanks for this good guide.

[scottcline]

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