It's a problem about UDMA. Take a look at the "Disable DMA for IDE drives" Section of this page. http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions Then you will install pfSense without problems (you should change /boot/loader.conf) When system has started, you can activate DMA with "atacontrol". Be careful with the mode you use. Greetings Roberto

Iperf Results, Polling Disabled Vmstat Results, Polling Disabled Iperf & Vmstat results, Polling Enabled Iperf results to 127.0.0.1 on the 450Mhz PC If its only doing 40-50Mbs to 127.0.0.1, I have a feeling the NICs arnt the problem though I could be wrong. I just ran this under vmware on my older 1.8Ghz pc (XP SP2 as the host-OS, pfsense installed in vmware). 700-800Mb/s to 127.0.0.1, and 80-95Mbs over Vmwares 10/100 ethernet adapter to my other pc, cpu load pegged at 100%.

With thas images, the hardware works. Thanks. Ángel.

Ok, I'm an idiot.  Following this thread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,3877.0.html I simply pointed a web browser to the default IP, and got in and finished the config from there. Bottom line:  Follow the two threads I linked to, and you should be up and running in no time.

@sullrich: Maybe power management. I can live without that. thanks again.

Just a thought, could those massively delayed packets be retransmits caused by the state table in your firewall overflowing? (well technically just filling up and waiting for connections to timeout in the state table).

ok let me try this. Thanks for your support  ;)

Version  : 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-03-15-2007 built on Tue Mar 20 00:29:24 EDT 2007 But no luck. Is there a way to add these drivers to pfsense manually?

Thx all for the replies. Have orderd one now, it seems to be perfect for me.

http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD6/RELENG_1/

It feels like i've put the thread in the wrong forum, and if someone with the ability to move it feels that it belongs in the hardware section, please feel free to do so.

I'll lock this thread. Please continue posting to http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,3954.0.html as this one covers the same topic and is in the correct board. Thanks.

Thanks a lot. Now everythinks work fine! GV

128 mb is enough to run the base featureset on it. Packages are not supported for embedded platforms and depending on the package you really need more ram then (snort for example eats a lot of ram).

Reset the asigned ressources in the bios or try to manually assign them. Also swapping pci slots might help.

@sai: Could the FreeBSD gurus tell me which FreeBSD mailing list to post this problem on? I have tried freebsd-questions@freebsd.org some weeks ago but no progress there. Start at questions, then make your way to freebsd-net@ and if that finally doesn't work try freebsd-current@

Don't know. Hard to say what a faulty bios can do here but as it seems to be fixed I wouldn't care anymore about it.