What are the specs of your box? 50% CPU for pushing 100 Mb likely isn't high at all, depending on the CPU and NIC's in your firewall.

Thanks to those who have helped out so far. I don't know if what I just did is good news or not: I put the flash card in a Dell GX110 instead, and did an installation onto the flash card.  It took a little time, but it went through without a problem. I took that flash card, and put it back into the GX260 and it booted up.  I walked away from it for a little while, and I had the following message on the screen when I came back. ad0: timeout - write_DMA retrying (1 Retry Left) LBA=5665679 I'm thinking the GX260 doesn't like something about the flash card, or something is still enabled in the BIOS that I don't see. I rebooted the GX260 with the flash card and disabled the DMA and ACPI again.  I'm gonna keep watching it and see if the error comes back.

that forum thread contains no info - the link is unaccessible :( when mouting pfsense install image on a TFTP i get this [image: kernel.jpg] [image: kernel.jpg_thumb]

@Tenzen: for those interested: http://tenzen.dnsalias.net/soekris the link doesn't work - asks me for a password  >:(

This was fixed long ago in recent snapshots and if you search you will find: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2864.0.html

Your LAN computers should be set to obtain ip automatically. If the line is static, you can just set the WAN on pfSense to static and plug in the numbers. It is possible that the Nokia is running PPPoE or something. Ask the DSL tech and set the WAN accordingly.

Yup, I'm building one of the FX5620 boxes and it doesn't have a CDROM and I don't have a USB one to boot from.  While I can pull the disk and built it elsewhere, it's a lot of effort compared to doing a netboot from a trusted interface.

Try upgrading the bios. if it is a bios problem there is no way we can work around this.

Packet mode (from man boot0cfg): packet  Use the disk packet (BIOS INT 0x13 extensions) interface,                     as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing disk                     I/O.  This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but                     requires specific BIOS support.  The default is `packet'.

If you want to simplify your setup drop the router and use a pure bridged modem. It's less things that can go wrong and less settings to configure. However ot should work the way you have ot now too. You have to manually assign DNS-Servers at system>general if your WAN is not DHCP or PPPoE and gets them assigned automatically.

Really?  You'd rather spend $140 on a Hitachi microdrive instead of $29 on the Seagate?  This is not a poor-quality issue with respect to the Seagate.  It USED to work, now it doesn't.  Something changed in Free BSD to bork it.  By the way, I couldn't turn up any Fujitsu microdrives at all on Google or on Fujitsu's site, so I DK what happened to their product line.  Hitachi bought out IBMs product line, of course.  I think it's just them and Seagate now. I just wish that bug report had been marked with something other than "non critical" on the Free BSD site. P.S.  I'm not using a WRAP either.

The embedded version of pfsense displays kernel output via the console port.  You'll need to hyperterminal into the serial port on your device on order to see the rest of the boot sequence from that point on.  So basically pfsense continues to load but without video or keyboard support.  Get a null modem cable if you dont have one already and console in.

Thanks!

You need to download the full update file. Then just upload it at system>firmware. System will reboot after the upgradeprocess. Note that firmwareupdates are not supported for embedded platforms but only full hdd installs.

LOL, thanks!

I installed Webmin (lite) to do this. Works great an I only have to install the modules I need. Greetings, Marcel

Try the latest snapshot from http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD6/RELENG_1/ . Haven't seen the problems you are describing with 1.0.1 anywhere but upgrading to the latest snap won't hurt.

@yawarra_paul: Hi Scott, I'm going to give creating a "read-only during bootup" version a try since the versions we ship don't have a lot of need (or space) for installable packages.  As I understand it, when a new version comes out the whole CF usually gets reflashed. If it seems to work I will post the image on our website at: http://www.yawarra.com.au/sw-osimages.php for others to play with. Thanks for all your help, it is much appreciated. Best regards, Paul McGowan No problem, please let me know how it works out and thanks again for the xmas present!