PfSense : i get "cannot connect to installer daemon" when the install begin

veptune

Hello,

I want to install pfSense from my USB key, so I boot on it, I get the menu, it starts automatically on multi user mode, and then the "graphical" interface starts and I get a "cannot connect to installer daemon" message. And 2 buttons, "retry" or "exit".

Of course, if I retry, I still get "cannot connect to installer daemon".

I use an Asus Vivobook.

During the install of linux (ubuntu) the embedded ethernet card was not recognized, there is no linux driver for it, so I had to plug a USB Wifi adapter, and it was recognised during the ubuntu install. Maybe pfSense can't recognized it and I got this message because it can't find any network interfaces? I don't know.

Any clue?

Thanks

stephenw10

Hmm, it should still get further than that. It will give you a different error message if it doesn't detect any usable NICs.

Does it allow you to access the command line after that fails?

If so you can check the logs which should show why the daemon stopped. Try: cat /var/log/daemon.log

Steve

veptune

@stephenw10 yes, and in the var/log/messages the last messages is :

KLD iichid.ko: depends on hidbus - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: /boot/kernel/iichid.ko - unsupported file type

and in /var/log/daemon.log there is :

cannot calculate the system NDI
failed to load the system settings

stephenw10

@veptune said in PfSense : i get "cannot connect to installer daemon" when the install begin:

cannot calculate the system NDI
failed to load the system settings

Ah, OK. It has no NICs it can even read the MAC address from. So, yes, you would need to add some NIC to allow that.

What is the NIC in that?