Yes, that's a pcengines WRAP and atheros based wireless cards. I have several of these units here running pfSense very well. See http://pfsense.com/mirror.php?section=/tutorials/wrap_install/wrap_install.htm how to set it up.

Hello again,

i figured out that the miniPCI modem has an pct303a chipset - a so called softmodem.

Martin

@Numbski:

Just as a point of interest, I never did get Ghost to work properly with FreeBSD.  If you do manage to get this to work, you'll likely have to run growfs in order to grow the available disk space.

I've just recently started playing with LVM2 on a Debian NAS device I have here, and although I was originally very hesitant, I have to say that the combination of md devices (not to be confused with FreeBSD's md's) and lvm's is quite a refreshing change, and it's a pity it cannot be used under FreeBSD.  Instead of being stuck with just /dev/ad0, you could make a pv (physical volume) out of /dev/pv0, then add it to your volume group, /dev/vg0.  Once there, then create a logical volume, say pfsense, /dev/vg0/pfsense, and install there.  Run out of disk space?  Add another drive, create another pv, add it to vg0, run growfs, life goes on. :\

Ah well, please ignore my postulations. ;)

You really should check out GEOM.

i updated to rc2e, and i still get timeout, i'm just gonna buy another nic…thanks for the help guys ;)

uggggh don't bother respoding to this. I just noticed that there are bootp broadcasts from the previous cable providers gateway coming in on the LAN interface. Even though I had the guy check this at least 4 times he must have put the old cable modem on the LAN port instead of the LAN lol. Hopefully this is all it is.

Well that seems to have done it… using 50ft crossovers at both sites but now I have another massive problem, have to start another thread for that. Thanks again Hoba!

@hoba:

Disable device polling.

I agree - My P166 has intel NICs that support polling, but there's a continuous background load imposed, which turns out to be a good 30-40% of CPU on my box.

Test it and see is the best answer.

Thanks for pointing that out to me Bill, Let me know when you got that snapshot ready ;)
EDIT : I tested the snapshot and the driver seems to work good !
Regards
Ponl

Hi all,

I've got the same problem on a VIA EPIA M10000 running VMWare Server 1.0.0.
Any news with this?

Booting with RC1 livecd iso image stops with the same kernel panic at newfs.

Already searched VIA and VMWARE forums for similar reports, there doesn't seem to be any.

I've tried already disabling Acceleration and "memory page trimming" in the VM - didn't work.

VMWare edition and Developer edition didn't work too.

I'll try to get the Embedded edition into a vmdk somehow (maybe dd it from a knoppix live cd onto the hard disk), I'll report back my results.

Marc

I have via rhine based nics at my via c3s and they are working without issues. Check your cables. You might need crossovercables somewhere depending where you plug them to.

And get the latest BIOS you can find for them, then disable LPT, AUDIO, GAMEPORT, USB, COM etc. and reset Extended BIOS info and turn of "plug and pray".
If it still doesn't work, grab some other HW.

@hoba:

Check out your bios settings. You should turn off plug'n'play os and make sure the bios configures the cards properly.

After posting the earlier message, I searched my spare parts bin and found two other 10/100 NICs – an Intel (yay), and a Realtek (ugh).  I swapped those in place of the NDCs, and pfSense was happy.  The integrated 3Com NIC also works without problems.  I may go back at some point and use one of the NDCs to replace the Realtek, and I'll check the PnP/BIOS settings at that time.  Thanks for the help!

Scott

well, now it's ok with the RC1…

What'S the target system? try to play around with CHS/LBA mode and or enable/disable advanced ata and ultradma modes. I needed to do this to make my via c3s boot from cfcards.

I really appreciate your guidance, and it's great to know it's just me ;-) because pfsense is really sharp!

To respond to your probing questions:

Nope, no loops, 1 switch in the test config, other than pfsense all test machines have single nics.

Traffic shaper is off.

If i re-cable everything with no config changes onto my Cisco 2900 10/100 switches…the issue goes away and the pfsense interfaces still negotiate to 100, full duplex. Changing gigabit switches from Dell to SMC made no difference.

The cables are the same, for all testing. So yes, it's possible that there's something in there to review.

The proftpd config has no throttling at all, it's a minmal proftpd.conf.

Our configs appear to be slightly different though: you've gigabit on the pfsense platform and (maybe 10/100??? elsewhere...the simple switches???) whereas i have gigabit switches and 10/100 on the pfsense platform.

My hardware platform is Dell GX150's with an onboard 3COM nic (i think), and 2x pci nics.

It is possible that i have been unlucky and hit two nic vendors with issues, though i think it's a 3COM onboard the Dell GX150, and the two pci nics are ASX 88814 (or something along those lines).

Though I've GX240s to try next with intel pci 10/100 nics, i'll let you know how it goes.

I appreciate the help, thanks.

pmk.

Check out the linitx device. It's based on a C3 1GHz and has 6 nics, one even being gbit: http://linitx.com/product_info.php?products_id=909

Just an update…

I've got PFSense RC1a running on the box just fine with transparent proxying working (although it took an act of congress to get the script to work correctly), but no QoS. I'm still fighting the packet scheduler not liking the order in which the port forward rule is tossed into the rule set. I'm not sure if there's a way to make them compatible.

Anyone know of a way to get RC1a to be happy with transparent proxying port 80 and doing QoS? (P.s. I know this is off topic, but nobody replied about this in the addons area either).

Thanks.

oki
so i triede these modems ( isdn)
draytek isdn 2000
single isp - ok…..
dual wan - a very very poor performance . only one wan works - btw - both are connected
so ill try both isdn with pfsense netzt few days
ps: i think draytek works - but only in failover mode - and cannot merge 2 wans.....+
of course - not channelbonding - but draytek cannot differ beteween pc´s oder download/skype 4 example...

Run this again.  I fixed this 2 days ago IIRC.

Run cvs_sync.sh releng_1 from a shell prompt and reboot.