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    Pfsense + 4965 won't boot!

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      ofacesig
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      So I'm building pfsense on an old p4 box with 1gb of ram and a 40gb hard drive.  Using an adatper
      I installed an Intel 4965 as it was shown to be supported.  HOwever the dang thing refuses to boot now!  I get 10 or 11 iwn0:  timeout reading ROM at 0xXX messages.  Then "panic: ieee802.11_get_ratetable…" error.

      The final line of the error is:
      "stopped at kdb_enter+0x3b: mov1 $0,kdb_why"

      I have no friggin clue what this means other then the fact it's complaing about the connection on the wireless card.  However I can't get to the gui to change it!

      pfsense P4 3.0GHz | Generic Dell Desktop | 1GB DDR2 | 40GB HDD | 2 x HP NC112T PCI-E server NICs | picoPSU-160-XT + 160w external PS | pfsense 2.2.1 i386
      FreeNAS : Athlon 64 3000+ (socket 754 yeah buddy!) | ASUS K8V-MX | 1GB DDR | 2 x 2TB Hitachi Deskstars 7200RPM RAID1 | TP-Link 1Gbps NIC | FreeNAS 0.7.1 i386

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        bryan.paradis
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        @ofacesig:

        So I'm building pfsense on an old p4 box with 1gb of ram and a 40gb hard drive.  Using an adatper
        I installed an Intel 4965 as it was shown to be supported.  HOwever the dang thing refuses to boot now!  I get 10 or 11 iwn0:  timeout reading ROM at 0xXX messages.  Then "panic: ieee802.11_get_ratetable…" error.

        The final line of the error is:
        "stopped at kdb_enter+0x3b: mov1 $0,kdb_why"

        I have no friggin clue what this means other then the fact it's complaing about the connection on the wireless card.  However I can't get to the gui to change it!

        You may get more milage if you post more of the actual log data.

        It boots if the card is take out still?
        Does the card work in another computer?

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          ofacesig
          last edited by

          Where can I get the log?  This is just what I'm reading for the local console.  and yes the card works fine in a windows machine.

          pfsense P4 3.0GHz | Generic Dell Desktop | 1GB DDR2 | 40GB HDD | 2 x HP NC112T PCI-E server NICs | picoPSU-160-XT + 160w external PS | pfsense 2.2.1 i386
          FreeNAS : Athlon 64 3000+ (socket 754 yeah buddy!) | ASUS K8V-MX | 1GB DDR | 2 x 2TB Hitachi Deskstars 7200RPM RAID1 | TP-Link 1Gbps NIC | FreeNAS 0.7.1 i386

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            bryan.paradis
            last edited by

            @ofacesig:

            Where can I get the log?  This is just what I'm reading for the local console.  and yes the card works fine in a windows machine.

            dmesg

            and

            /var/log/system.log

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