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yes that was exactly what i mean. are you sure it won,t work ? because it would be very nice to have two extra nic. and i mean that i use a risercard with two pci slots on it.

Why not get a multi-port NIC?

Does the Alpha still use the atheros driver?

I found this:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man/?command=ath§ion=4

Revision v3 of the Netgear WG311 is based on a Marvell Libertas 88W8335
     and is not supported by this driver.

EDIT:
Looks like we might need the Malo driver which is in Freebsd 8.0
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=malo&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-stable

I´ve been running both WRAP and ALIX boards with full installs of both IPCop and PfSense using 4GB microdrives. One of these units has been running now for over 2 years without an issue.

When I first started using microdrives they were silly expensive. Now, however, they can be purchased on eBay for under 10.00€. These drives produce no noticeable heat and make little difference to power consumption.

Based on price and performance I can´t see any reason to go with a standard CF card with ALIX boards when for the same price you can have a full install with access to all the add on packages as well.

MiniPCIe interface contains 1 lane of PCI express, so performance should be equivalent to a fullsized PCIe 1x slot. I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work.

This problem may be resolved, but we need testers. The patch was for a Realtek 8139C+ chip specifically (which are also present on Firebox X series devices).

Please see http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,15669.0.html

Hi
I have found that IDE connector on Nokia ip130 motherboard is in fact a 50 pin connector, and that could be the reason of issue : following some info found at http://pinouts.ru/HD/Ata50Internal_pinout.shtml , "The first four pins of the connector plug located on the device are not to be connected to the host, as they are reserved for manufacturer"s use"
So I have the idea that Nokia uses this pins to detect if the IDE 2.5 disk  is jumpered as device0, device1, or cable select
And so I think that the CF adapter must emulate this, by providing 4 pins more (than the usual 44 pins) in positions 1-2-3-4 to provide this info

So solution could be to find a CF adapter with 50 connector with cable selection in the 4 first pins, and not like usual 44 standart pins and cable selection somewhere else on adpater

Do someone agree on this and found/used such 50 pin adapter

Thanks
GyB

The Alix box will be just fine on a 20/1 ASDL line with only 8 users.

gigabit nics have more throughput even on non gigabit connections vs 10/100 nics

you use the installer, install the base system
log on
go to shell (8 from console)

use fdisk to partition the other disks (google fdisk)
create the filesystem (google how to do this, i forgot the EXACT command)

you're probably better off just putting the entire "var" directory under a single disk…it's going to be easier in the long run
to do this just make a new directory
mount your new disk (again, google mount if you need to but it's basicly mount DEVICENAME DIRECTORY NAME so if your device is /dev/ad9s1 and your new directory is /mnt/newvar the command would be mount /dev/ad9s1 /mnt/newvar

copy everything from var to the new drive using the cp -r command
use the mv command to mv the old var to /var-old (you do this incase something goes wrong and you can easily restore it)
use the cp command to cp /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab-backup
create a NEW /var directory with mkdir
edit fstab to mount your new /var disk

that's the method on a system ALREADY installed...i might have left some stuff out.....it's been awhile since i've done this in free bsd

on a new install you can probably use the installer to partition and mount disks...

A forum search for "fitpc" turned up this note: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,15132.0.html suggesting at least one user has successfully installed pfSense on a fit PC.  The same search turned up another user who apparently gave up trying to install pfSense on a Fit PC.

I have no experience with Fit PCs. However I have been running pfSense 24x7 on a mini-ITX system with a 1GB solid state disk module for almost a year. The module is a Transcend TS1GDOM40V-S. It plugs directly into the IDE connector on the motherboard. There are 44 pin variants to replace notebook drives. I bought it from http://www.memoryc.com, current cost 14 euros and they ship internationally. This won't be suitable if your pfSense needs lots of disk capacity (e.g acts as web cache) or is a heavy disk writer. Compact Flash cards are another low power alternative and from reading the forums it appears there are a number of pfsense users who have chosen that option.

Search the forum how to get this card working.
The search function is here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?action=search

i purchased the alix box at pcengines.ch

and ive tried 2 different cf cards where 1 was previously running with backtrack linux and the other cf is new
ah and i used the new one to do the bios upgrade (with a dos image on the cf that worked)

If you want small with four interfaces, and possible VPN accelerator, and <$500, the Soekris boxes are nice. https://www.soekris.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=129 You could add an Intel PCI GB card if you wanted to expand it. The vpn1411 cards are helpful on the Alix and Soekris boxes, but any modern CPU will be able to run IPSec faster than the card can. Just to pull some rough numbers out, on 1.2 I could do about 8mb 3DES or 15mb AES on a stock Alix. The vpn1411 got it to around 40mb 3DES or AES. A PC-based box with a mobile CPU ran about 50mb 3DES and 85mb AES. YMMV.

I had problems with my USP keyboard and some of my network cards. I´ve tried every solution that the forum could provide and then i accidentally found the 1.2.3 version.

http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=377

This solved all my problems! The even the USB keyboard is working without any workarounds.