WAN can't ping after I allocate it a static IP?

[vboxbsd]

I've setup pfsense in a virtualbox vm on mac os x, during setup WAN gets IP from DHCP, and I can ping from console.
But after I allocate the WAN a static IP, I can't ping from the console.

Here's what I've tried to fix this:

• setup a rule to allow all traffic through the WAN but pinging via the console doesn't work.
• adding DNS records eg google's free public ones in Settings > General, but this hasn't helped.
• disabled DHCP server in pfsense on both WAN and LAN.

It's very possible I haven't done the above correctly - so please ask me to redo these with explanations how.

( I extracted this question from my longer post here:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,52870.0.html )

How can I fix this?

[heper]

enter the correct gateway

[vboxbsd]

I managed to get it working by using the setup wizard and not bypassing it by clicking the logo above it.
From a comparison, I entered the same information manually as I did in the wizard, so I'm not sure why it now works.
But it does.

Thanks for your reply.