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I have a Dell R300, (Old but works great for free homelab to play around with), and when I install Pfsense 2.6.0 it see's the 2 onboard Broadcom Nics but I get no link light activity after boot.
Install works fine. Link lights work fine up until the bootloader says "Configuring LAN/WAN" than the lights turn off.
I already updated the BIOS and firmware as far as it would go. Maybe it's an IRQ conflict?
I was able to use a USB -> Ethernet just to be able to get into the logs to see if I could find what exactly the issue is but I am not seeing it. (Or maybe I not looking in the right area)
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks.
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J jimp moved this topic from Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software on
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You see the NICs as available though? They are assigned as WAN and LAN and pfSense boots fully?
When you run
ifconfigat the command line how do they appear?What are you trying to link them to?
Steve
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Sorry for the delay. I figured it out finally. I have 3 different Dell R300 servers that were not working. To summarize the nics worked fine if I installed server 2022 and during boot. When I installed pfsense the minute it would get to configuring LAN WAN both link lights would go out and not come back on. Since they are old servers I updated the BIOS and reset all defaults in the BIOS. This did in fact fix the problem on all three.
Thanks!
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