Hello! Patch received and applied. It works! Thank you for your good and quick service! Gigabit cards are now recognized by: pfSense-1.2.3-RC1-Embedded.img.gz from pfsense mirrors. pfSense-1.2.3-RC1-1gb-ad2.img.gz from Hacom. Regards, Josep Pujadas

TYVM for all the feedbacks. Now just waiting on the NICs - should be arriving tomorrow morning.. just things I wondering.. pfsense works better on dual/quad cores cpus or its the same? thank you

I just remembered that I bought my GF a samsung slim dvdrw usb powered along with her eeepc.  I'll give that a try and if it works I'll buy another one.

It's been around for a little while.  They have been working a vitrualization build for XenServer.  It a common issue, like the clock running backwards and stuff.  They have been working for a while. I know when they get it straight it will be awesome to have XEN build that is geared for Xen Server virtualization. RC

This is the hardware beginning to fail.  There's a very good chance that your drive is going bad.  Lockups are almost always hardware related and the DMA timeouts are a good indication that the drive is going south.

have you configured your switch for the same vlan config as pfsense? the port on the switch that your client is on needs to be in the same vlan as the one you want it to access. You will also need to configure the pfsense lan port on the switch for trunking so that the interface can see packets from both the lan and vlan. have you done this yet?

The one thing that concerns me with the model with the LCM is if it will work with LCDproc. I've looked into several devices like this and tested a lot of them personally. In just about all cases, pfSense needed additional work outside of gui config to get LCDproc working. I've been working on the same idea as you for several months and the biggest hurtle I've had is getting the LCM to work correctly.

Yes if you can boot the live cd without problem you should be ok. How much bandwidth are you planning to push? Depending on that you might be better off with an Intel NIC since they usually are the most reliable. Although Broadcom NICs dont seem to have much problems wih FreeBSD either. Did you check the link i provided if this NIC is supported?

Here are a few options I would try. I have no idea if any of these would work on that particular piece of hardware. Ask the seller how they did it and repeat. Temporarily connect an IDE CD-ROM and boot from that. Connect an external USB attached CD-ROM drive and boot from that. Install on an IDE drive on another system, remove the drive and put it in the Nexgate and boot.

I have a mini-ITX board with VIA C3 CPU and CLE-266 chipset. The PCI slot holds a TP-LINK TL-WN651G wireless NIC which uses the Atheros chipset which is well regarded, supported by FreeBSD/pfSense and has given good service for over 16 months. There are quite a few different brands of Wireless NIC that use a supported Atheros chipset. However be aware that some brands (Linksys, Netgear and DLink among them) change the chipset without changing the model number. For example, the DLink DWL-G630 might use a Marvell chipset (unsupported by FreeBSD/pfSense) or a TI Chipset (unsupported by FreeBSD/pfSense) or an Atheros chipset (supported by FreeBSD/pfSense) or a Ralink chipset (supported by FreeBSD/pfSense). One of the factors in my choice of a TP-LINK card was that they seem to change the model number when they change the chipset, making it easier to know what you are buying. I have found http://linux-wless.passys.nl helpful in determining what chipset is used in particular products even though that site is focused on Linux. I know of no comparable site with a FreeBSD focus.

I'd suggest you use the search function.  This has been discussed many times, particularly in the Hardware forum.

@cheesyboofs: As wallabybob & Cry Havok said this has been discussed at length, here is a good start. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,13098.15.html And http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,11913.0.html The main thing to look out for on mini-itx boards are that they usually come with cheep Realtek NIC's, take my advice and spend a little extra and get one with Intel GB NIC's, this is the one I've been running for a while now. http://www.icp-uk.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=416 Then if you need extra network connectivity buy a cheap VLAN switch as I have, again covered in the post above. At the end of the day only you can decide what will meet your needs, no one is going to say "ear mate buy one of these" as all you will do is say Oh that too expensive, or they don't sell that here in Greece. Excellent! I will try to investigate further with all your help and advice. I will now more confortable with the idea of having an mini-itx system for PF. Thanks again!

Thanks ! good idea … I have a WRT54G with DD-WRT I will try using VLAN ..

If you aren't tied to using mini-ITX, there are a few other systems you can use that are fully supported.  I've been using a Lanner FW7520 with great success.  Other have used the FabiaTech FX5620 or FX5621.  Depending on your exact bandwidth and processing needs, a Soekris Engineering system might be a good fit.

Atheros based PCI wireless NICs are well regarded. I have used the TP LINK TL-WN651G for over 15 months and its given very good service.

That's when they hope to get 8.0 out - it may be later.  After that it's still a matter of whether or not pfSense 2.0 uses 8.0 as the base.  This seems likely, but not certain, and even if it does I don't believe that 2.0 will be released in the very near future (though I could be wrong).