Not really. Even the most crappy 20 years old COM ports had 115200bps. Why the hell would be USB limited to 57600?

@tokamak: @s1nemesis1s: Sorry Guys, I might be in a little over my head. I have not done much networking stuff for over a decade, this was supposed to help spark it and help me learn again. My dell switch is set to grab an address of 192.168.1.200. - I can plug in a unmanaged switch to rule this thing out - I just used this one because I was intending on learning as much as possible. My uverse gateway has an address of 192.168.1.254 I set the Pfsense box to 192.168.1.50 /24 The uvese box of course is a gateway device which hands out DHCP address and serves up WIFI. I am pretty sure I need to put the pfsense box on its on subnet but I am not sure what is best, and how I will get the uverse box to actually forward to the pfsense box if I put it on a different subnet. I have read several threads on uverse boxes and how you have to config them for pfsense, in that you have to set up some sort of stacked router or forwarding. Again, any and all help is appreciated - I will post whatever info you guys want - I am just stuck…and am trying to figure this out with little experience or luck, Hey bud, I can relate, I too have a Uverse (NVG599) beast and I am working on getting pfsense working with it. So here is how I got mine to work, wired LAN only, with intermittent issues I am still working out: You need to put Uverse in FULL Bridge/Passthrough mode with ONLY the Pfsense box connected to it. ATT-Uverse router–---pfsense box----switch----connected devices of house To put uverse in full bridge/pass through go here - https://goo.gl/dkvy5f (& OR) http://www.dslreports.com/faq/17734 This will get the wired LAN working, at least it did for me, I have a TP-Link TL-WDN4800 in my pfsense box and I'm trying to get Wifi AND Wired through my one pfsense box. Your best bet is to NOT have Wifi served up by the UVerse router since in order for pfsense to work you must put that uverse box into full bridge/pass through. Your best bet, the one I'm leaning to now, is have a separate Wifi device hanging off of your switch behind your pfsense box. In my recent searches I'm finding out from folks smarter than me that Uverse wants to know EVERYTHING that passes through your home network!!!!! ATT Uverse does not like to be put in the corner... Meaning that Uverse routes all traffic through their NVG, DNS, etc and if you try to bypass their systems they packet shape, throttle and will do their damnedest to make your experience miserable. (paraphrasing on official networking terms since smarter people explained it better than I can write it.) An example I have well documented on my home Uverse with DD-WRT/OpenVPN: (different vpn providers tested & on different home computers too.) My Uverse is 45 down 8 up - runs close to that on my Uverse NVG599 (all traffic through my vanilla home uverse equipment) OpenVPN running (UDP or TCP any and all ports, servers around the world, does not matter) 7mbps down & 7mbps up OpenVPN running SSL or SSH 43mbps down & 8mbps up A quick google search will reveal a lot of other folks experiencing similar issues... A ray of hope potentially for us Uverse users - pfsense forum user -  icemanncsu - also has Uverse and somehow connect his pfsense box directly to his uverse fibre termination point and bypassed his Uverse NVG altogether. But his link explaining his step by step on how he did that is down. I've PM'd him hoping he can share his step by step on here. Hello! I used http://www.dslreports.com/faq/17734 and it totally worked! I left my wireless intact for a guest network that is on a different subnet. Thank you! What is with the packages though? HVAP did not work correctly for the web part, kept getting errors and it would not let YouTube play…. Also what is with squid, I don't play a ton of games but it blocks GTA 5... I need to do more reading, but without the packages everyone raves about...hmm..I guess I need to look at all of it as learning :)

@doktornotor: ….. I would get rid of the garbage and never ever consider Linksys products again. I'm using several 'Linkys' (Cisco now ?) devices, re flashed with DDWRT. Some of theme are running nearly a decade now. root@WRT54GL:~# uptime 07:55:12 up 100 days, 22:12, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Ok, no draft N support, but they handle the job for me. As 'stupid' AP's, they do fine. I love the setup : "shut everything down" and up it goes ;) Btw: DD-WRT: with some 'ebtables' rules I can re-enforce "Client Isolation", a must-have on public (wifi) networks.

Interesting fault between an X-cable and a straight-thru.  I will make myself a cross over and see how autoselect behaves on my WAN connection.  In my case, setting my WAN to default (which does properly auto negotiate) vs autoselect (erratic operation) makes a difference on my WAN for some very odd reason.

Just had a modem swap to an Arris DG2470 and confirmed the above bug happens with it also - so I suspect it has something to do with PfSense or the underlying FreeBSD 10.x kernel.

But building a zero-cost repeater this way is fairly trivial, too. I'm going out on limb when I say I think the consensus here is: define "zero-cost". The hardware may cost you "nothing" (you already have it and it's doing nothing else for you) but the time to implement and more importantly, the time to debug/workaround/worry about hidden issues is not worth the time "cost" in my experience.  Even if you factor in the "learning" value of exploring the issues, it's cheaper to not do it at all. I've done lots of "fun" little projects like this trying to get value add out of old hardware. pfSense is an excellent piece of software that definitely works well with tons of older tech. Unfortunately wireless is a different kettle of fish and the newer solutions are way cheaper and much more capable/effective than trying to resurrect something. Just my $.02

dansguardian is no longer supported. there is a e2guardian package in development. squid can be a pain, but you can probably get squid3 running, but best to dump squid2

@cuvy: How can I "un-stuck" the packages installation? Diagnostics - Backup/Restore - Clear package lock (or something like that).

So it didn't work. I removed and reinstalled the packages.  I also forgot i have nmap installed as well. Below is the error i got since reinstalling the packages. Any thoughts? Crash report begins.  Anonymous machine information: amd64 10.1-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15 #0 c5ab052(releng/10.1)-dirty: Sat Jul 25 20:20:58 CDT 2015    root@pfs22-amd64-builder:/usr/obj.amd64/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.10 Crash report details: PHP Errors: [27-Aug-2015 14:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 15:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 16:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 17:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 18:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 19:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 20:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 21:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 22:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [27-Aug-2015 23:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [28-Aug-2015 00:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [28-Aug-2015 01:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [28-Aug-2015 02:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [28-Aug-2015 03:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [28-Aug-2015 04:00:02 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [28-Aug-2015 05:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17 [28-Aug-2015 06:00:01 America/Cancun] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function outputjavascriptfileinline() in /usr/local/www/fend.inc on line 17

@jimp: If you haven't yet registered your SG-2440, do so at https://pfsense.org/activate/ and you will get access to https://portal.pfsense.org where you can download the factory firmware for that device, which as cmb mentioned is labeled ADI. Once you register you can also enter a ticket in the ticket system and we can give you a link to the specific file you need if you are having trouble locating it. Thanks - I had an SG-2440 that I ordered in May (I think it had 2.2.2 on it), and finally set up, and it had this issue.  I tried to upgrade it via the console (it was able to access the internet, but not serve its own GUI website), and it still had this issue (I think another post identified the missing gid "wheel" associated with the 503 website error) After registering the S/N (and renewing my pfSense gold membership at the same time), I was able to download the "ADI" memory stick version and burn it to USB, then boot to that version, and run the initial configuration. Thanks for building it with a mini USB console port, and the console-friendly installation. That was really handy in this instance, as I don't know if SSH would have worked, or worked as well for this sort of re-installation task.

i just reflashed the CF card using the image on pfsense site and copied the newer bios files in it and it booted fine, was able to upgrade a very old alix 2d3 to 0.99m without issues

Figured it out. It was being detected but the input text (…Up or ...down) just wasn't triggering for some reason.

Thanks for your reply. Ifconfig will be usefull in the future. I just configured my whole network in order to give pfsense a new ip that should work.

sure you could setup something for 200, end of aug the pfsense sg-2220 starts shipping http://store.pfsense.org/SG-2220/ Priced at $299 but sure you can build something for under $200..

I think I have the same one.  Give me a couple of days to set it up.

Thanks dotdash  :)

HFSC real-time m1=∞Kb,d=0,m2=∞Kb You need a full-hardware infinite-bitrate quantum-based NIC and a phone with all the 3Gs and 4Gs and WiFis. Thanks for time.

Lol. Well if you run into trouble what I have is the new action technology with gigabit connections and wireless networks and ac.  The easy fix for this was to plug the Lan into the Wan port. Then I added the Wan port to the network setup.  Disabled the dhcp and let poses do it all and it works wonderfully