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    • Y
      yozh
      last edited by

      Thanks  hoba

      The network card is on irq 10

      dmesg | grep "irq 10"

      rl1: <d-link 10="" dfe-530tx+="" 100basetx="">port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xdfeffe00-0xdfeffeff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci3
      uhci1: <intel 82801ba="" bam="" (ich2)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0
      rl1: <d-link 10="" dfe-530tx+="" 100basetx="">port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xdfeffe00-0xdfeffeff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci3
      uhci1: <intel 82801ba="" bam="" (ich2)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0
      rl1: <d-link 10="" dfe-530tx+="" 100basetx="">port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xdfeffe00-0xdfeffeff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci3
      uhci1: <intel 82801ba="" bam="" (ich2)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0

      I guess thats the issue ? I wonder how I can change that, should I try a different PCI slot ?</intel></d-link></intel></d-link></intel></d-link>

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        hoba
        last edited by

        You could try that, or as I suggested disable other unneeded devices in the bios. There's usually a lot of stuff that you can turn off as you don't need it to run pfSense to free up some hardwareressources.

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        • Y
          yozh
          last edited by

          Got you will try tommorow as this is a headless machine. Thanks.

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          • Y
            yozh
            last edited by

            Ok I was able to do it now. The irq 10 is clean now, still no luck with the devices

            dmesg | grep "irq 10"

            uhci1: <intel 82801ba="" bam="" (ich2)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0

            ls

            acd0            cuad1          net11          nfs4            ttyv3
            acpi            cuad1.init      net12          nfslock        ttyv4
            ad0            cuad1.lock      net13          null            ttyv5
            ad0s1          devctl          net14          pci            ttyv6
            ad0s1a          devstat        net15          pf              ttyv7
            ad0s1b          fd              net16          ppi0            ttyv8
            ad0s1c          fd0            net17          ptyp0          ttyv9
            agpgart        fido            net18          random          ttyva
            apm            geom.ctl        net19          speaker        ttyvb
            ata            io              net2            stderr          ttyvc
            atkbd0          kbd0            net20          stdin          ttyvd
            bpf0            kbd1            net21          stdout          ttyve
            bpf1            kbdmux0        net22          sysmouse        ttyvf
            bpf2            klog            net23          ttyd0          urandom
            bpf3            kmem            net24          ttyd0.init      usb
            bpf4            lpt0            net3            ttyd0.lock      usb0
            console        lpt0.ctl        net4            ttyd1          usb1
            consolectl      md0            net5            ttyd1.init      xpt0
            crypto          mdctl          net6            ttyd1.lock      zero
            ctty            mem            net7            ttyp0
            cuad0          net            net8            ttyv0
            cuad0.init      net1            net9            ttyv1
            cuad0.lock      net10          network        ttyv2

            I dont have to reinstall do I ?</intel>

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            • Y
              yozh
              last edited by

              The funny thing is that when I disconnect the UPS I get this messages,

              Apr 14 22:58:09 pfsense kernel: (null): at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
              Apr 14 23:00:02 pfsense kernel: (null): at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected

              but nothing on connect to eather port, and this was all good before :(

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                hoba
                last edited by

                Reinstallation should not be neccessary but maybe it would help. Try to fire up the livecd and see if it detects the hotplug of the ups before reinstalling.

                Oh, and did you try to reset the ups? Maybe it has crashed and doesn't provide useful information anymore to the system?

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                • Y
                  yozh
                  last edited by

                  I tried with another UPS and all the same, for some reason it doesn't see that kind of UPS, I was able to use a USB keyboard, USB jumpdrive all fine hotpluged and everything, but when I plug in the UPS I get nothing…...... I disabled everything in the BIOS even the floppy...... This is very strange I wonder whats different here vs 1.0.1

                  For reference its a APC Backup UPS ES 350R

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                    hoba
                    last edited by

                    I would start searching freebsd lists regarding usb and that ups. 1.0.1 and 1.2 have different freebsd versions. 1.2 is much newer of course.

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                    • Y
                      yozh
                      last edited by

                      Yeah I figured as much, I looked last night, couldn't really find much. I cant remember what version of FreeBSD was 1.0.1 on ?

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                      • H
                        hoba
                        last edited by

                        6.1 iirc.

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                        • Y
                          yozh
                          last edited by

                          Well I looked around, and I cant find anything. I will try installing 6.2 on a white box and try connecting to it to see what happenes.

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                            Cry Havok
                            last edited by

                            Worth visiting the NUT (Network UPS Tools) list archive too.  ISTR that FreeBSD and USB UPS support is still pretty poor.

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                              yozh
                              last edited by

                              Thanks tried everything and nothing works. SO maybe downgrade is in  my future. :(

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                                David_W
                                last edited by

                                Rather than downgrading, you can look the other way to see if that will help. pfSense 1.2.1 should be here by the end of the month, and will be based on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE (rather than the 6.2-RELEASE used in 1.2).

                                Click here for the development snapshots. The ISO works fine on my Dell Poweredge R200, which, being ICH9 based, will not work with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. However, it's not advised to use this in production.

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