So an APU4. Then yes see: https://pcengines.github.io/ Any Coreboot version will boot pfSense though. Steve

@stephenw10

Check the actual PCI IDs, run at the command line pciconf -lv. Or in Ubuntu: lspci -nv. There may not be a FreeBSD driver for those NICs. Steve

You can check the boot log in Status > System Logs > OS Boot. You should be able to see all the NICs detected and attached.

Yup that^. Those numbers are too close to 100Mbps. Check the actual linked speed of all the NICs involved.

@stephenw10 Worked great. Thank you.

The best info there is in Christian's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_jIPVcioY&t=74s

UPDATE: I tried one more time this time on bare metal - the PCIE 4X connector indeed works with the QNAP 4 port card. It seems ESX has trouble with the PCIE slot, but native is OK. Now I have a 12 port router w/ 8 x 1Gbe and 4 x 2.5Gbe. I'm going to test stability over the next few days.

Ok, not much you can do about that until the ixl driver is updated to recognise multi-gig link rates. That assumes the SFP module is passing that data. But reporting as unknown shouldn't actually cause a problem passing traffic.

@tedquade Thanks for that, extremely helpful. I did not anticipate replacing a zfs mirror would not be a documented and supported procedure. I can't risk router being offline, so I've got a replacement unit coming today and I'll try that recovery when the current unit is offline.

@stephenw10 thanks for your answer!

MiniPCIe can carry PCI, USB and/or SATA, or some combination. It would be unusual to see an mPCIe slot that only carried USB but entirely possible. That said you would be better off with an external Ethernet connected access point if you can possibly do that. Steve

@jgallagherco Phew!

@stephenw10 Hello, Thank you for reaching me. I re-installed using memstick, and it gave me same situation. I tried 2 more times USB booting the result was same, so I let it be for 30+ minutes. Luckly it is up after 30+ minutes automatically. My config file has wiped out, but I'm happy. Thank you so much.

Thank you for explaining it Steve.

@PLBarton Do you still have this patch? I recently installed a i225-LM PCIe 4x card and the operation seems wonky and I wonder if it is related to x1 vs x4 lane support?

Getting old does indeed suck. We'd need to see more of the crash to know more there. Just the panic string is too generic to tell us much.

@stephenw10 I believe I came across that post while I was looking. Yep I think my buddy will need to see about a new modem. I would want a different provider myself. I have Spectrum and I got a modem with only an ethernet port and phone jacks so I can do what I want with my service.

@Setarcos Thanks for this! I will have to check it out.

Well, the solution I came to today is it's better to just a clean install of Proxmox, since, the pfSense VM is so important and its resilience in restoring config. Once the IOMMU is messed up, just reinstall. So, I got 64GB memory coming in for it on Tuesday to replace the 32GB, so I'll do it then...one hour max.