I got done by this too. Luckily the online store I bought it from waived the re-stocking fee (which would usually apply, as this was an order-in part), so I paid the difference between this and the PCIe version. I swear I did my homework before buying it… just not enough, apparently.  ;D

Yep works great! Have a look through the x550e thread for details on that box. (x550e, x750e, x1250e are the same) Steve

@sirjeannot: ghm > any tweaks? what extra services do you use? Pretty much stock config - nothing fancy. Extra services are: Siproxd, blinkled (LED assignment) and an OpenVPN config - nothing spectacular but no performance killers such as Snort either (don't need it, have only very few open ports). One aspect that might be important re config: I need VLANs both on the WAN side (my ISP expects tagged frames) and for the various LANs I have. It seems important that once you use VLANs on a given port to no longer assign the parent port to a network but only the VLANs. E.g. If you have LAN11, LAN12 - don't just tag/assign LAN12 to VLANID12 (aka eth1.12) and LAN11 to eth1. Nothing should be assigned to eth1 if there are VLANs on that port. Hence LAN11 must become a tagged VLAN as well and assigned to e.g. eth1.11. What are you CPU / Mem loads like when you run into the maximum throughput?

I just checked my NIC card today and it it use Realtek 8168D chipset and it's actually accepted by default. I just didn't go thru the NIC assignment thinking that the auto detect can't detect an UP link. Now it worked just fine without any problem. By the way the driver mention in the above thread seem to case the kernel to get fatal exception on bootup and the kernel seems to crash and reboot in cycle. Thanks all.

I'll check it out.  Thanks.

Hi, Thanks for the answer. It's not on the 8.1 list :( I guess that means it won't be even in 2.0 then. Guess I'd better look for other boards! Thanks again

I looked into it a bit further and the AD3INLAN-G has the Intel 82541PI ethernet controller. When I looked it up it had the following specs. IEEE 802.1Q VLAN support with VLAN tag insertion and stripping and packet filtering for up to 4096 VLAN tags. Looks like I'm going to be picking this up along with the Mikrotik RB250GS. I found the switch for $55 shipped door to door. Thanks for helping me narrow this down.

Thanks Steve, I know these things are problematic and I'd like to avoid using one if at all possible, but right now it looks like it might be my only option. Believe me, if another solution presents itself I shall be on it in a flash  ;D I'm not sure why that chipset is showing as only 10/100 though. But if it works and gives me up to 50mbps, then I won't complain. I'll give it a try and see what happens. Cheers, Nathan

@kooby: Thanks guys. My serial shizzle came today and I am going to give it another go. Unfortunately the board doesn't have any serial ports and my IDE to CF adapter is in use with my current router with a different router software package. My bad. Must've been fatigue! I meant to say that the (Asus AT5NM10-I) board doesn't have any IDE ports. I will give the AHCI-legacy switch another go sometime soon.

Do they have a website or email address to let them know my findings? Did some more testing last night. If i do a warm reboot, the modem is active right after reboot. If I do a shutdown(fully take power away) I have to run the cdcontrol cmd again and goto all the config screens and re-save them to be active. Which is good to know since I will be unplugging the 3G modem to take with me when I'm away but when I'm home it'll be setup for fail-over..

Indeed you could. At 500mA it's going to be sinking 1.5W though which is kind of wasteful and generates heat in your case where you don't want it. Better to use a switching regulator. It's probably all 5V on the board anyway. Maybe worth further investigation.

What kind of adaptors are you using? I've never seen any which didn't have one problem or another.

Tried this a while ago (2 lines, 3 phones). Should work, as long as you don't do any traffic shaping (above say, 10Mbit) or 50Mbit+ routing through your ALIX.

If you could dig up the specs for the Nokia (chipset/interface) you could see if it is in the HCL for FreeBSD.

Seems far more likely to be a motherboard/bios problem since you have tried pairs of Realtek and Intel NICs. Have you tried one of each? Steve

Update: SRW224P gigabit interfaces also work well with AOC-UG-i4

Has anyone successfully run pfSense 1.2.3 on an Intel D510MO board in embedded mode? I tried using a 512MB and a 1GB USB stick but I cannot get pfSense to finishing booting up. It hangs at "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense0". Thanks for your help. /boot.config: -h Consoles: serial port BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS 572kB/2078452kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (sullrich@FreeBSD_7.2_pfSense_1.2.3_snaps.pfsense.org, Mon Dec  7 21:59:24 EST 2 009) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x739788 data=0x13cf6c+0x51c80 / Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]… Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Dec  7 22:22:52 EST 2009     sullrich@FreeBSD_7.2_pfSense_1.2.3_snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pf Sensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_wrap.7.i386 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510  @ 1.66GHz (1666.70-MHz 686-class CPU)   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x106ca  Stepping = 10   Features=0xbfebfbff<fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,c<br>MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>   Features2=0x40e31d<sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,<b22>>   AMD Features=0x20000000 <lm>AMD Features2=0x1 <lahf>Cores per package: 2   Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory  = 2130644992 (2031 MB) avail memory = 2075066368 (1978 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <intel  mopnv10j="">ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8 ioapic0 <version 2.0="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard lapic0: Forcing LINT1 to edge trigger wlan: mac acl policy registered cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard padlock0: No ACE support. acpi0: <intel mopnv10j="">on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 acpi_hpet0: <high precision="" event="" timer="">iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0 Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900 acpi_button0: <sleep button="">on acpi0 pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0 vgapci0: <vga-compatible display="">port 0x20c0-0x20c7 mem 0xe0200000-0xe027ffff,0 xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xe0100000-0xe01fffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 28.0 on pci0 pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1 re0: <realtek 8168="" 8168b="" 8168c="" 8168cp="" 8168d="" 8111b="" 8111c="" 8111cp="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethe<br="">rnet> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xe0004000-0xe0004fff,0xe0000000-0xe0003fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 re0: Using 1 MSI messages re0: Chip 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self powered ehci0: <intel 82801gb="" r="" (ich7)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xe0280400-0xe02807ff irq 23 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] ehci0: [ITHREAD] usb4: EHCI version 1.0 usb4: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3 usb4: <intel 82801gb="" r="" (ich7)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0 usb4: USB revision 2.0 uhub4: <intel 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb4 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered umass0: <ibm 0="" 2="" usb="" 2.0="" memory="" key,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 2.00,="" addr="">on uhub4 pcib5: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 30.0 on pci0 pci5: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib5 isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0 atapci0: <intel ich7="" sata300="" controller="">port 0x20b8-0x20bf,0x20cc-0x20cf,0x20b0 -0x20b7,0x20c8-0x20cb,0x20a0-0x20af mem 0xe0280000-0xe02803ff irq 19 at device 3 1.2 on pci0 atapci0: [ITHREAD] ata2: <ata 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Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1666703450 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:3a,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:3a,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. 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A forum search would be enlightening there, there are four pages of hits for 'cm9' with what appears to be several people using it.