I would expect that card to be completely unsupported.

At best it will only work in 802.11n mode but I don't imagine even that working as it's a newer device that requires ath10k. Where did you see reports of success?

Steve

The driver was never fixed by switching to 12. While it showed more errors, I still had no use of my NIC while on any newer platform. Ill see about bringing this up to the devs over with FreeBSD though to see what all they have to say.

Thanks for your help!

Hi,
I bought this motherboard: Asrock J3455M NA, it has an embedded Apollo Lake Celeron, 4 cores, 1.5/2.3Ghz, 10WTDP, supports AES-NI
added

already had the case, the hd and the power supply,
ended up spending around 150GBP for a <10W 4 core (albeit celeron) processor and a quad port intel nic.

My Internet connections are slow, one wifi at 30Mbps/3Mbps and an ADSL at 10Mbps/512Kbps, multiple IPSEC and OPenVPN tunnels terminated on it, cpu never goes over 10%, coming from an old celeron@600Mhz with storage on a CF card the system is pretty fast.

The only issue I had is that it would not boot 2.4.x due to a bug, solved by applying this fix: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=139027.msg760012#msg760012

Regards,
Mattia

Nice!  Well I'm glad the compiled driver has been helpful.  Unfortunately I don't have any great ideas about why your download speed would be slow.  I see that your older PC had Broadcom NICs, but you've proven that the Realteks on the Zotac are more than capable of 200+Mbps.  Was this testing performed following a fresh installation, or after restoring a config?  If you're not running any IDS and have double checked that you have no traffic shaping enabled somehow, maybe it's worth doing a fresh installation and running some speed tests on different sites before customizing any settings.  Also, I don't see whether you said if your older machine was also running 2.4.3?  In other words, do you suspect this is an issue with 2.4.3, or an issue with the Zotac hardware you're running on?

@Inxsible:

Intel i340-t4  – $18.95 USED -- I'd go used/server-pulls here to avoid Chinese fake cards

M350 Mini ITX enclosure - $39.95 NEW.

Hi, is this combination working reliably for you? If so what version of pfsense are you running please?

I've got the same configuration (R210II and i350-T4)  but have posted in the general section that I'm having major problems getting it to boot reliably after a reboot with all intel ports populated. Sadly I've had no responses and I'm at a loss what to do next, but if we could compare BIOS setup/i350 config I'd appreciate it.
TIA.

Sorry for not seeing this obvious solution  ::) // thank you

@Grimson:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=146012.0

many thanks for the fast repley, I lost this post. thanks again  :)

Ah, so you actually have 512MB RAM already?

That looks OK then. Maybe run some throughput tests, see what you can get through it.

Steve

When you switch it to composition 8 you are enabling the AT port which is what pfSense can use. You get an MBIM port too but there is no MBIM support in FreeBSD yet.

It would work equally well in compositions 6, 7 or 8 but not in 9 which is probably what it was set by default.

if you choose 14 or 19 then you get two USB config indexes and can choose between them.

Steve

The ASCII diagram is a little unclear.  ;)

It should be setup exactly as it is shown in the wiki doc:

The top device there, labelled 'DSL router' would be your WAN side switch. Though if you have DSL it could be a DSL router with built in switch potentially.

Steve

I've never actually used one but I believe it will pass >1Gbps so, yes. Someone else can probably post better numbers on that.

Steve

Just reporting that the 1.94 driver still works with 2.4.3. No issues so far. The change log is scary.

Are you tellin' me this sucker is nuclear?


I've been using a system based on an Atom 2550 (essentially a 2500 with hyperthreading) for about 2 years with no problems. Its currently handling 40Mbit/5Mbit DSL circuit. It also runs OpenVPN (for remote access) and ntopng.

Carlos

I would want something more than the E3845 for what you are asking there. It might do it.

It's not a test that is often done: What additional throughput is possible when you are already doing 80Mbps OpenVPN…. and Snort.  ;)

I can't really recommend anything but our own hardware. That literally pays for me to be here.  :)

Steve