Recent installation ISOS will ask which kernel you want to use upon installation and make the necessary changes.

Nevermind, found out how to set DMA to be off and that worked : After the installation, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: If you have to disable DMA for your hard drive(s): hw.ata.ata_dma=0

No I have it set at defaults, connecting directly there is no problem.  I even came home and installed pfsense on my home machine to try it out and I get the same result.

NTOP has a long history of hogging the CPU unfortunately.

Fat32 definitely won't work on a floppy. Ubuntu's format utility: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ mkdosfs -c -f32 -v /dev/fd0 mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) Bad number of FATs : 32 Usage: mkdosfs [-A] [-c] [-C] [-v] [-I] [-l bad-block-file] [-b backup-boot-sector]       [-m boot-msg-file] [-n volume-name] [-i volume-id]       [-s sectors-per-cluster] [-S logical-sector-size] [-f number-of-FATs]       [-h hidden-sectors] [-F fat-size] [-r root-dir-entries] [-R reserved-sectors]       /dev/name [blocks]

Hello I got this device http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10909 Its got 6 nics, 5 realtek 10/100's and 1 realtek 10/100/1000 via ftp im able to get 90 megabits from "wan" to "DMZ" much faster than our net connection can handle so it preforms pretty well, ram usuage sites at 30% and cpu sits mostly at 6% but some times spikes up to 60%

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RC1 has many many many bugs fixed that still exist in 1.0.1

Thanks will do.

reflash. use 1.2 RC1 instead of 1.0.1 (btw. never heard of a version 1.0.2)

From a shell: rm /boot/kernel/kernel Reinstall the update.  Reboot.

what is your wan? adsl? is your modem working as a bridge or as a hybrid modem/router?

maybe my CDRom not working.. sorry..

Switch to Intel nics.  Upgrade bios to latest version.

Yes

if had a similar problem, trying to install 1.2 Beta-2 and after the installation bootloader always kept saying: can't find kernel, until I see, that the hd was connected to the second IDE channel. So I plugged the hd into the first IDE channel and voila, after a fresh install (config backuped) pfsense starts. Maybe you have the same problem. Try to connect the harddrive to Sata1

Hello just some info about my experiances. with linux there are issues with core 2 duos and ide devices, usually linux doesnt boot or doesnt detect the ide device. since linux is usually more up to date with hardware I would asume that bsd has some catch up to do before it works properly Try using a sata hard drive and an external usb cd rom drive