@stephenw10: The fans in the Firebox X-e are three pin but are controllable via a pwm output on the superio chip. Check to see if there are any fan speed settings in the bios. Otherwise you can use any three pin fan. there are a wide variety to choose from that are slow and quiet or fast and loud. Or use an inline speed controller. The Crystalfontz 633 should be supported by the lcdproc-dev package. It may be that you an odd connection option. Do you know which serial port it's connected to? What settings have you tried? Steve I'll have to see what I can get for a fan, I wanted something that would fit that case.  It has a bios setting, but it does not get that much more quiet, it uses voltage to change the fan speed when it's 3 pin (the bios lets you choose between 3 and 4 pin, and then each of those has a workstation and server option, no idea what the difference really is, the manual on SM's website didnt' really say what the difference was). I got the LCD working now via ldcproc-dev, I had to use the Com2 alternative and found out the service was stopped so I got it working.  I thought the buttons lit up and they won't using the driver but that's ok, the buttons do work regardless.  I also am using amd64 build now, got two WD Raptor 150GB's in there in RAID 1 on the HOST RAID Adaptec as I had them lieing around. Sucks that the box was out of warranty and the HDD crashed, nothing else is wrong with it but Sendio did not want anything to do with it.  They're about $3000 too (software included in that price).  I will probably also pick up the PCI Express Riser card since it's cheap just in case I want to slot something in.  I didnt' see anything for the PCI slot on SM's website so not sure how I'm suppoed to use it.  I cannot remember, do 32bit PCI cards work in the PCI-X slot? There's a Riser card for that slot too. Edit: Oops, forgot to mention that CF633 seems to have FAN headers on it too, will have to look into it's fan controlling capabilities.

Hello All, Just wanted to add to the above post. I downloaded the pfSense-2.1-Dev iso and tried it to see if the Sun quad nic would be detected and setup correctly at install time. the install fails at the same spot as the pfSense-2.01-RELEASE iso does. If I do an install  with the FreeBSD 8.1 or 8.2 live iso CD the nic is detected and setup as expected. Not sure what i need to change in the loader.conf file to make this card work. I tried the workaround as described in the link posted in the above/previous post but the install still hangs at 'probing phy failed'. For completeness I did go ahead and do an install without the card,then added the card after the initial pfSense-.2.0.1 install to see if the card may work then,but the card in fact still stops the boot process. Thank You, Barry

Some pretty detailed instructions on the lcm-162 connection type for the hd44780 driver can be found here: http://www.tecnowledge.net/2009/06/getting-lcdproc-to-work-with-an-lcm-162-freebsd/ The source of that github repo it would seem. Steve

Thank you for the clarification jimp

@chrisintaipei: anyway, i got a bit worried and checked d2500cc's manual, it specifically says being a fanless board, it requires some kind of case fan or the help of fan from power supplier, and that it should not be totally fanless. so, i'd say it's still better to stick a case fan into the case albeit a very slow one. Ok, in summer I have to reevaluate. It's not wrong to use a fan. My intention was to reduce power as much as possible. Therefore I decided to go fanless. I tried powerd option under pfsense but without impact to the power consumption. So I diabled it again. But you can check if your temperatures feels better with this option enabled. Somewhere here in the board you can find how to include mbmon into pfsense to see the temperatures on the status page of the administration webpage.

This daughterboard http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ad3inlang On this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153188

It's normal for things to take a while on CF. It has to remount the filesystem read/write, then write out changes, then switch it back. If you have packages installed it can add to that as well.

Hello i already buy a very similar hardware, i will receive soon and check if there is no problem with Pfsense. Did you install pfsense without problems? REgards

The PowerConnect 2848 is strictly a layer 2 switch all routing will be fed up stream and come back down to the switch ports. Here is a User Guide for the switch for further reference. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/pc28xx/en/ug/pdf/ug_en.pdf Get Support on Twitter: @DellCaresPro

Traffic between clients on the same subnet does not go through pfSense so it's not possible to block it. You would have to use individual interfaces per client, not really practical even with vlans. I don't use bandwidthd so I can't comment. It would be better to start a new thread in the packages sub forum anyway, this thread is now way off topic.  ;) Steve

That might explain why I didnt get anywhere with the Marvell Yukon VPD app, I had checked out the link above as well but didnt get anywhere.

Sweet thanks for the feedback guys. For testing I was using these cheap kingston SSDs and yeah they died pretty quick.  Reading online they have lots of issues anyways so I just wanted to be sure.  Transcend chips have been very reliable in the past I used the DOM IDE ones with monowall for years. Thanks again  :)

Reading the man pages for the specific driver might give some clues, for example the Intel em driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

@mattlach: I can't speak for the CPU use for that kind of load, but I will say this. Don't plan on using on board ethernet. Either get two separate intel PCIe server nic's or one of their dual port models. Integrated NIC's - especially Realtek - are terrible for this kind of load. For NIC, I am glad to say Intel Onboard 82579V + Intel Pro1000 CT w/ 82574L are fine to use in the above case on testing.

As an update on this issue I could not get this UNSUPPORTED card to work. I replaced with a supported card. For anyone wishing to know which NIC's are supported please see follow this link: http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?view&id=46&Itemid=51

Thanks Robi.

Hello, Did you suceed with your install ? Regards

A reboot seemed to clear up the issue.  :D Wayne