Bum/half-dead NIC?
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I have an older Netgear FA310TX Rev-D1 card that I'm trying to get running with pfSense. While doing the initial setup I tried to put the WAN on that card, but pfSense didn't detect the link change and wouldn't accept it, so I had to use the other NIC (not that big of a deal). After getting pfSense up and running I tried to configure it for LAN and I get a "dc0: Watchdog timeout" error on the screen and suddenly I can't connect to it via the WAN as it seemed to have knocked the WAN out. So I had to restore to defaults and start over. Should I write it off and get a shiny new Intel card?
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Yes. I have tried that old netgear card in mine also and it really never worked or would work intermittently.
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