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    Intel 82574L GbE LAN & MSI IM-945GSE-A

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      chrish
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      Where did you buy your MSI IM-945GSE-A from?  I was about to pull the trigger today, and it's either on speical order or available in may.

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        cheesyboofs
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        http://www.icp-uk.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=416 Note this price is without VAT and delivery.

        Author of pfSense themes:

        DARK-ORANGE

        CODE-RED

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          cheesyboofs
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          Just some more feedback on this board:

          I am now over two weeks in with this board and I can say it has performed perfectly. My old fanless Jetway board still required a fan in the 1U Casetronic Travla C158 60W case I have as the chipset use to get so hot it would lockup in this case, this board however does not get hot and does not lock up.

          The IDE master/slave problem I mentioned was tracked down to my card reader and microdrive in the end and hard setting it to slave cured the problem.

          If you want a guaranteed stress free mini-itx install you could do allot worse than purchase one of these boards.

          Author of pfSense themes:

          DARK-ORANGE

          CODE-RED

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            grandrivers
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            the only thing I wish could get sorted out is hbmon so we could see the temp and other monitoring info seems like the bootup is a little slow but defiantly no deal breaker would also make a nice nas once frenas gets based off of 7.1 freebsd  and this board is a little hard to come by must be popular

            pfsense plus 25.03 super micro A1SRM-2558F
            C2558 32gig ECC  60gig SSD

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              saschas
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              Hi,

              I'm also thinking in buying the MSI IM-945GSE with 2 NIC's. But the only stable download of pfsense I see is the 1.2.2 based on  FreeBSD 7.0.
              Questions:

              • did anybody test the 1.2.2
              • where can i download 1.2.3
              • should I emideatly try 2.0Alpha??

              I need squid, squidguard, Darkstat, DHCP and the Captive Portal.

              greetings from belgium, Sascha

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                cheesyboofs
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                You need v1.2.3, get an ISO from here.

                http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD7/RELENG_1_2/

                It is fine for production IMHO, I'm using it now if you read the thread fully.

                Don't go for v2.0a yet because when you are testing new hardware you need a (known good) stable OS so if you run into any problems you can easily rule out the OS. Once you are happy with the hardware (which you will be) then you can try the more buggy Alpha release of v2.0.

                Author of pfSense themes:

                DARK-ORANGE

                CODE-RED

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                  saschas
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                  Thanks a lot for the link, will test it as soon as the MB has arrived.

                  greetings from belgium, Sascha

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                    iced98lx
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                    Cant' believe I didn't see this sooner, I am also a lover of this board :) It's a great platform for PfSense.

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                      wreck
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                      Would anyone be able to recommend a low-power PSU and/or a 1U/2U mini-ITX case for this MSI board?  Would this board work with a standard micro-ATX case?  Your help is very appreciated.   I was originally planning on using an AMD Lima processor for a new build but quickly realized this approach will conserve a lot of energy and hopefully cost up front.

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                        cheesyboofs
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                        I have mine in this case - http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/Product.aspx?ProductID=361 it comes with a 60W external silent PSU. This case has space for an extra PCI card so is wider than it needs to be but is very thin so I have mine squeezed in a scanner shelf under a desk.

                        Casetronic Travla cases aren't cheep but they are VERY good quality, but in truth you could fit this board in any mini-itx case it has no fan and nothing to stick out - hell even the memory fits flat on the board!

                        Author of pfSense themes:

                        DARK-ORANGE

                        CODE-RED

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                          wreck
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                          Thanks for the help with the case.  The Casetronic you've linked is pretty much the perfect fit for this board in terms of scalability and cost.  If only it were rackmount…nothing the mod squad can't fix.  ;D

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                            arcticslayer
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                            This hardware looks interesting for my first pfsense box (I've been using m0n0wall so far). I'd like to put a slimline DVD reader in it and run pfsense live with settings on a CF card. The reason for running live is to reduce sound from a hard disk, but I guess I could use an SSD drive for that.

                            A question regarding that Travla case:
                            It seems no CF card reader is included with the case, what kind of reader would you recommend together with this motherboard?

                            By the way, running pfsense live - is it a good idea?

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                              cheesyboofs
                              last edited by

                              How about one made just for the case;
                              http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10410  :D

                              Or use a USB pen and run embeded;
                              http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9845.msg55513.html#msg55513
                              http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,10214.msg57614.html#msg57614

                              Or a micro drive (its a real hard drive just in a compact flash box  ;) )
                              http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,11016.msg61193.html#msg61193

                              Author of pfSense themes:

                              DARK-ORANGE

                              CODE-RED

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                                iced98lx
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                                Just as a heads up Logic Supply FINALLY has these boards back in stock (I just ordered 2 more) for those in the US:

                                http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9830

                                I snagged a couple of those with 2gb RAM and this case: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/m360 for ~$270 shipped each.

                                They also have a dual core atom board from MSI that uses the Realtek RTL8111C Gigabit chipsets (Should be supported in 1.2.2 if i read right but don't hold me to it) if you'd rather:
                                http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9832

                                I think the dual intel LAN cements this board as a great platform.. will do some power testing soon here and get that up as well..

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                                  iced98lx
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                                  Anyone have any kind of CPU Temp monitoring available for this board?? I'm on 1.2.3 and saw this: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee didn't know if waaay down at the bottom the temp utility could work with any ATOM proc or if it was chipset based…  It's the only thing I really wish I could get with this..

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                                    forum
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                                    hi my board wont work ? i have download the pfSense-1.2.3-20090422-0357.iso.gz extract and burn. but when i comes to sio:2 type 16550A it stop and hangs what can the problem be ?

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                                      grandrivers
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                                      try reducing the number serial port in the bios i also selected to only use 4 usb ports

                                      pfsense plus 25.03 super micro A1SRM-2558F
                                      C2558 32gig ECC  60gig SSD

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                                        forum
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                                        ok i was trying to do this. but in my hurry i did a mistake and closed all of my usb ports. does any one know how to put them on again ?

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                                          grandrivers
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                                          cant see it in the manual try pulling battery and kill the power for awhile

                                          pfsense plus 25.03 super micro A1SRM-2558F
                                          C2558 32gig ECC  60gig SSD

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                                            forum
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                                            thank you  ;D now its working again. saw wich one should i turn off ? does you now it ? i got it is now working fine besides from one thing it will only resgoncie three of my four intel nic idon,t now why. It finds the last one too but with a mac adress 0

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