An issue I ran into at one point was the CF card was a tad smaller than the image I was writing to the card.  Try writing the 2GB image to the 4GB card and see if it boots. Cheers! Dan

ok con la 2.0 embendedd non ho nessun problema e finalmente riesco ad installare anche i packages. :D

@jimp: You don't install it from the console, after you fix the config you can get back into the GUI and do it there. :) AHH yes .. I just figured that out and was coming back to post … helps if I think before i speak! I appreciate the help Jim! Josh :D SOLVED

Thank you for your reply. I'm installing pfSense on a full hd, 2.5.

Thanks for your reply! pfsense is right now working perfectly and I dont want to mess around with it, its such a good product. Yeah I figured the benefits from doing this dont quite match the hassle required to learn a new OS like freebsd… I have more than enough with getting linux to do more than bash scripting ... I will look at the application later on, in the meantime, if anybody know without doing much work, how to do this, please share with us! Thanks!

@e: I have also powered down the cable modem and pfsense Others have reported that the power needs to be off for some seconds, at least long enough for the power supply capacitors to drain. Have you done the suggested packet trace on the wan interface? Might be time to talk with your ISP's technical support.

Hi Cry Havok, Thank you for your comments. I need to connect the other computers to the same network because they need to share the internet connection. According to what you said, would it be better if I put the web server behind the pfsense firewall ? that is : modem/router –-> pfsense firewall  ----> web server                                                             ----> local network on different subnet Will the web server still be able to serve webpages in this arrangement ? patrick.

Are there any upstream proxies that might be interfering? Can you load this URL from a PC on your LAN? http://www.pfsense.org/pfSense/pkg_tester.php If you get a PHP array, it should work from the router. You can also try this from the pfSense console: fetch -o - http://www.pfsense.org/pfSense/pkg_tester.php

jojoepsp Just checked the link, and it works fine.

the only way to do it in this case is to install it on an HD in another computer and move it to the alix. you will have to make sure that you keep the boot settings (install it on master with no other drives) otherwise it wont boot. after you have done this, go to the web gui and enable the serial output.

@jimp: Whoever had the bright idea to use link-local addressing for anything should be fired (and fired at). +1 with the possibility of torture…as its torture.

The video will stop at that point. That's where the output switches to serial. In addition to those serial port setttings (putty is better for that, btw), you must be using a null modem serial cable.

The CF on NanoBSD is kept read only except when the system tries to make changes it switches to RW temporarily. I haven't seen it fail to switch to rw mode unless there was a problem with the filesystem (faulty CF, fs needs a fsck, etc). You would need to be on either 1.2.3-RELEASE or 2.0 beta images, you shouldn't use 1.2.3-RC <x>images after the -RELEASE is out. When in doubt, completely reflash the CF or use a different CF, and don't just do a firmware update.</x>

The next point of stoppage. This applies to both my laptop and the alix. Trying to mount nfs root. nfs root: 10.0.0.1 /usr/local/pfsense (bfe0 or vr0): link changed to state up Then it just sits. Help please…..

Does pfSense/FreeBSD automatically trim SSD drives?  If not is there a process to take care of this.  Maybe a script that can be scheduled via CRON? Seth

At the time the sizes were chosen about 15 months ago they fit every single card we and users could get our hands on, with room to spare. In the past month, SanDisk shrunk their cards (without changing the model number even, lovely) by 5%, leaving the images now too large. 2.0 shrinks them further.