Not necessarily but if you have bad caps or a PSU with a shaky rail you can get some weird symptoms. The fan just twitching like that is a sure sign of something attempting to come up and then immediately dropping out, the 12V rail perhaps. Steve

@jimp: @Waggles: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_is_a_bridged_interface_and_how_would_one_be_used seems out of sync with https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Use_an_existing_wireless_router_with_pfSense The first talks about using a bridge to add wifi support, while the other avoids bridges all together. Those are two COMPLETELY different things. The first is talking about bridging two pfSense interfaces in general, the second is about using an external wireless router not a wireless card, and there isn't even a second interface involved in that second page, so bridging is irrelevant. In that scenario the external wireless router is plugged into the LAN. The two pages are not related in any way. The first page makes much more sense now.  I didn't read it as a WIFI card.  I interpreted it as an Ethernet port connected to a WIFI router.

OK all done. Installed a fresh copy on the mSata , now I'm working on restoring all the setting. Thanks to all. 8)

If it's an install issue you may be able to upgrade to 2.2.X from 2.1.5 even if the 2.2 installer has some issue on your system. Steve

The problem it works around has been fixed in 2.2.1 which is due out very soon. You can add the line to /boot/loader.conf.local though if you want. Running the 8.1 BIOS with ACPI enabled is best though. Steve

It should be started with a shell cmd as I had got it working by following the posted fixes on 2.1.5 so will all those patches etc still be effective or do I need to clear out and start again. I had lcdproc and lcdproc dev on 215 as recommended somewhere but after the install only the dev package was reinstalled so I installed the standard package but it was no help I'm going to see if I can find the fix you mention in the docs and get back in a while. Thanks Jay… P.S. no ip6

@dbessa: Install pfsense on raspberry pi b or cubieboard 2 No. Not at this point in time and not in the near future. Why do people ask this over and over again? https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79817.msg435431#msg435431

does anyone know if this even works? Is there a certain way this is supposed to be restored?

Hello all, i sorted all to work fine except pflocker. Can someone please see this printscreens and tell me what caused this? Many thnx. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31483374/Pfsense/Pfblocker_services.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31483374/Pfsense/pfblockerNG%20alerts.png

Maybe try with this.

@KOM: You probably have to give the proxy user ownership of the folder: chown proxy:proxy /your_disk_mount_point KOM you are the man, thank you

Restore the full backup you made prior to upgrading OR Install fresh and then restore your config.xml backup If you don't have a full backup or a config backup of your previous install then you're screwed.  If you are a paying support customer and have the AutoConfigBackup package installed, then you maybe able to restore based on that but I've never used AutoConfigBackup to restore a previous version's config file or if it's even possible. Otherwise you can make a config.xml backup with package information removed (it's a checkbox) and then do a restore and manually add/configure your packages.

Hi, thanks for your quick and sorry for my late response. I was on vacation…  8) I did install form scratch, but changed the hardware and installed as a vm. Backup restored fine and everything is up and running...

:) Finally got it all working, turned out to be wrong settings in my servers dns. Thanks everyone for your help Cheers Jamie

A tracking issue has been created: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4508

Best solution is to put your modem into bridged mode and allow your PFsense box to do everything. Note down the modem settings for connecting to your ISP (PPPoe, SIP, username, PW etc etc) as you will need to put these settings into the WAN page of your PFsense box.