Thanks fo the info on using the r7000. I’ll work on that this coming weekend.

So the problem here is simply that the modem is not given enough time to initialise at boot? You could try increasing the value of kern.cam.boot_delay or autoboot_delay in loader.conf(.local). Steve

Of course is possible. Electronics get more efficient all the time. I just replaced a 100Tx switch drawing 10 watts with a Gigabit switch drawing 3 watts.  10x more pleasure at 1/4 the cost! :)

this is the route i would go: https://store.netgate.com/MBT-4220-system.aspx does AES, intel has a fan to keep it coool  you just need a simple switch FYI.  i have a SG 2220 with a 120Mb connection at nearly full speeds and it never goes above 46 degrees C HIGHLY recommend netgate products.

It seems the iDRAC6 virtual console likes the older sc console better. Adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf.local fixed the line cutting on my R210II: kern.vty=sc Then you can play around with different video modes using vidcontrol. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?vidcontrol(1) This thread was helpful: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=140702.0

Even the "magnification" of the chip in the above postet image is from a different device, look at the components surrounding it.

Out of curiosity, what does your Init-String look like? Something along these lines? AT&F&C1&D2E0S0=0M1 Because according to the information given to me: M0 or M Speaker off, completely silent during dialing M3 is also common, but different on many brands M1 Speaker on until remote carrier detected (i.e. until the other modem is heard) M2 Speaker always on (data sounds are heard after CONNECT) Removing the M1 at the end fixed it for me.

thank you very much! for your reply, so I'm ready now to but it and use it for 24/7  :) bye

@SammyWoo: Afraid so. I would… try another slot if available.  Use compressed air can on slot as well as NIC board in general in case of lose metal shavings present. Go another PCIe card to rest, in case is the Mobo. Got your 12v, Extended Power Plug hooked up (if any), lots of people miss it. Thanks. The J3355B is a mini-ITX board, so only 1 PCIE slot is available. It also only has a 24-pin power connector which I did connect. I don't have any other PCIE card available, but I can try to connect the NIC to my FreeNAS box and see if the same issue crops up. If so, then I will RMA, but if the FreeNAS board starts up without a problem, then I am not sure what to do. I will perform this test tonight hopefully.

It should be no more difficult connecting to multiple carriers than one assuming you have hardware that will do it. You won't get LTE speeds unless your device present the connection as Ethernet. So either an entirely external device actually connected via Ethernet or a device that appears to the OS as a NIC, usually USB. Devices that appear as com port modem will not reach LTE speeds, you are limited by the PPP connection. However they also work 'best' with pfSense currently as removing a com port or losing the ppp is something it is configured to deal with. Removing a configured interface is not. Steve

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 4GB of DDR3 RAM 4 port  Intel I350-T4 PCI Express PCI-E 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