In this mode you will be using the wireless interface as a client (station mode) so there are less restrictions as to which adapters you can use. FreeBSD 8.1 (on which pfSense 2.0.x is based) does not support 802.11N so there is little point in spending extra on an adapter that supports it. Indeed it's much more likely to work using an older b/g adapter.
Some 802.11N adapters will work with pfSense but only in G mode.
The most complete list of what wifi  adapters will work with pfSense is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AojFUXcbH0ROdHgwYkFHbkRUdV9hVWljVWl5SXkxbFE&hl=en#gid=0

If you wanted it to ever work as an access point you need one that supports hostap mode.

The airlive X.USB appears to use the Atheros AR9170 chipset. This will definitely not work with 2.0.1 and probably not with 2.1.  :(

Steve

I don't know, it's weird.
Yes the card is seen by pfSense and appears to be working. If you run cryptotest it works well. However if you setup a VPN and try to use any of the encryptions supported by the SafeXcel 1141 you will find it doesn't work.  :-\

Steve

Yea that server will work.

@gsp:

Now on the HP i have other problem even that i partitioned my HD to use 20GB from 160 it stucks on installation on 38% staying there forever!!… :(

The universe has not yet ended so you are exaggerating, at least a little, in saying "forever". I recall my fresh installation of pfSense 2.0.1 from USB stick seemed to be stuck on 38% long enough for me to think it had hung. You might need to be a bit more patient.  I suspect waiting an hour should be more than enough.  I didn't record how long I waited and I haven't repeated it to time the wait at 38%.

My pfSense 2.0.1 has a 800MHz VIA CPU, 256MB RAM, a little less than 50% RAM used and 0 swap used.

I run minimal packages.

I suspect startup might be quite demanding on memory (and possibly swap) - it could invoke a number of short lived applications.

Can you post the exact ACPI message? Maybe a photo with readable text?

It may be natively supported in FreeBSD 9, so I'll leave it there for when I upgrade to 2.1. In the meantime, I have a number of USB Wireless adapters, they just won't work as elegantly as the the internal PCI-E Port.

Same board and same problem here :(
As advised the nics are recognized with the development snapshots of 2.1
The question is are they stable enough for production?

I tried that, pulled the cover off and found the a capacister had blow on the system board.  It took out the ethernet ports and I was getting other werid issues.  I check out the x700 that I have and it had failing fans and a electrical short.

Until I can find something else to use I stuck with a westell dsl modem and it is driving me crazy!

Well, it seems I may have fixed it.

From what I can tell it was probably the network adapter from the virtual machine may have still been enabled. I thought they had all been disabled when I shut down the VM but perhaps not.

Basically I restarted the firewall with nothing connected on the LAN and then reconnected one device at a time. Before I connected the machine that had the old firewall on VM on it I made sure it was shut down and the adapters configured properly.

Seems to be up and running properly now :)

TL;DR Probably the network seeing 2 gateways on the network and got confused.

After restoring the config and connecting the router to a mock network with internet access, the responsiveness issue seems to be resolved.

I have some firewall aliases and IPSec connections configured with dynamic DNS addresses, perhaps the GUI depends on resolving these?

Thanks,

Todd

Just wanted to say "thanks" to both people who responded. I appreciate you taking the time to help a newbie!

The image files are gziped so you need to extract them first if you're using dd to write (physdiskwrite does it for you from Windows).

The serial memstick images are here: http://files.pfsense.org/jimp/
I see that there are two and they are different but I have no idea how.  ::)

Steve

Edit: Try this one first: http://files.pfsense.org/jimp/pfSense-memstick-serial-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.img.gz

Sorry, here is the configuration:

It's a Intel Executive Series DQ67SWB3 board with a i3-2120 CPU and three Intel EXPI9301CT NICs.

It's powered by a 90W picopsu and now consuming about 33 Watts  :)

I have here a 100MBit cable connection and a 10MBit dsl connection.

Before I decided to build my own router I have tried a Vigor 2920n and a Netgear ProSafe SRX 5308.

My new box outperforms the other routers completely  ;D

Nico  :)

@stephenw10:

The fans in the Firebox X-e are three pin but are controllable via a pwm output on the superio chip.
Check to see if there are any fan speed settings in the bios. Otherwise you can use any three pin fan. there are a wide variety to choose from that are slow and quiet or fast and loud. Or use an inline speed controller.

The Crystalfontz 633 should be supported by the lcdproc-dev package. It may be that you an odd connection option. Do you know which serial port it's connected to? What settings have you tried?

Steve

I'll have to see what I can get for a fan, I wanted something that would fit that case.  It has a bios setting, but it does not get that much more quiet, it uses voltage to change the fan speed when it's 3 pin (the bios lets you choose between 3 and 4 pin, and then each of those has a workstation and server option, no idea what the difference really is, the manual on SM's website didnt' really say what the difference was).

I got the LCD working now via ldcproc-dev, I had to use the Com2 alternative and found out the service was stopped so I got it working.  I thought the buttons lit up and they won't using the driver but that's ok, the buttons do work regardless.  I also am using amd64 build now, got two WD Raptor 150GB's in there in RAID 1 on the HOST RAID Adaptec as I had them lieing around.

Sucks that the box was out of warranty and the HDD crashed, nothing else is wrong with it but Sendio did not want anything to do with it.  They're about $3000 too (software included in that price).  I will probably also pick up the PCI Express Riser card since it's cheap just in case I want to slot something in.  I didnt' see anything for the PCI slot on SM's website so not sure how I'm suppoed to use it.  I cannot remember, do 32bit PCI cards work in the PCI-X slot? There's a Riser card for that slot too.

Edit: Oops, forgot to mention that CF633 seems to have FAN headers on it too, will have to look into it's fan controlling capabilities.

Hello All,

Just wanted to add to the above post.

I downloaded the pfSense-2.1-Dev iso and tried it to see if the Sun quad nic would be detected and setup correctly at install time. the install fails at the same spot as the pfSense-2.01-RELEASE iso does.
If I do an install  with the FreeBSD 8.1 or 8.2 live iso CD the nic is detected and setup as expected.

Not sure what i need to change in the loader.conf file to make this card work.
I tried the workaround as described in the link posted in the above/previous post but the install still hangs at 'probing phy failed'.
For completeness I did go ahead and do an install without the card,then added the card after the initial pfSense-.2.0.1 install to see if the card may work then,but the card in fact still stops the boot process.

Thank You,
Barry

Some pretty detailed instructions on the lcm-162 connection type for the hd44780 driver can be found here:
http://www.tecnowledge.net/2009/06/getting-lcdproc-to-work-with-an-lcm-162-freebsd/

The source of that github repo it would seem.

Steve