Pfsense won't recognize network card
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Update
I brought four more network cards
That means there are currently 5 network cards
4 with pci connection
1 with pci-e-x1 connectionI tried to change
And those are the resultsThree of the cards with a pci connection
Once I connect the network card to the computer
I get the same result as the first network card
The system identifies only the external card but not the internal oneOn one card with a pci-e-x1 connection
When I connect it to a computer
The system identifies the internal card and not the external oneAnd the last card with a pci connection
Same
The system identifies the internal card and not the external oneAll cards are valid and working on windows xp / windows 7 / linux
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All cards are valid and working on windows xp / windows 7 / linux
On the same motherboard?
It does look like that card is being disabled by attaching a different card. Can you not just use two additional NICs?
Steve
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All cards are valid and working on windows xp / windows 7 / linux
On the same motherboard?
It does look like that card is being disabled by attaching a different card. Can you not just use two additional NICs?
Steve
yes on the same motherboard
i can use two additional cards
but the one i want to use is 10/100/1000
and all the other 4 is 10/100
the one on the boars is 10/100/1000I'll give it another try
I will try to get network cards that they are 10/100/1000The reason for all this is
That my current system is 32 bit
With 1.5 GHz memory and 10/100 network cards
And there is no upgrade to 32 bitThis computer I'm trying to install on is
With 4GB memory
And a 10/100/1000 network card -
Do you need more that 100Mbps? Having just one Gigabit NIC isn't going to help much, except maybe if you're using VLANs.
There appears to be some basic low level incompatibility with that on-board NIC and I don't think we are going to be able to help you with it.
pfSense 2.3.X will be supported for ~1 year so there's no rush to upgrade.
Steve
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If after much trying you just can't get things to work, I suggest adding a cheap intel nic you buy off ebay for $10.
Get two and replace your current add-on card… It will save you trouble down the road. Make sure whatever you buy has native support for netmap.
Suricata needs it to work in inline mode. It might save you trouble later.
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Do you need more that 100Mbps?
we have connections up to 500 MB
If after much trying you just can't get things to work, I suggest adding a cheap intel nic you buy off ebay for $10.
As I wrote I will try to retrieve other network cards
And if it does not work
Then another computerIn any case, thanks to everyone who tried to help
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Network cards are usually cheaper than computers.
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updating
I brought four new Intel network cards
With pci connection
And another Intel card with a pci-x connection
pfsense does not recognize any of them
I tried to connect two together or separately
The same resultIf Windows 2000 recognizes the network cards
(I connected two cards and the computer recognized the other two cards and the card on the board)
So pfsense should also identify them without problemsAnother question that may be related
When I installed the pfsense 2.4.0
The installation process was different from what I know
Perhaps I needed to do something different for pfsense to recognize the network cards ? -
You need to assign them to interfaces.
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I know that
The problem is that pfsense not even recognize the cards as if there is nothing there -
what does pciconf show
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That's what happens after I put the two Intel network cards
It does not even reach the stage where i need to assign them to interfaces(Attached image)
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There's a bug in the ACPI code showing there. Are you on the latest BIOS version for that board?
Steve
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yes I updated it before installing the pfsense
I have also tried to install with one bios before and one before that
It gave the same resultSo the problem here is the bios (or the bios code)?
If there is no new bios (and there is no)
So there is nothing to do ? -
Yeah, that is possible. Though it's non-trivial.
You might try booting a live Linux CD to see if it also hits that issue. A lot of times the ACPI will have sections written specifically for Windows and everything else just has to fall back to the defaults or have nothing at all. Board manufacturers usually only claim to support Windows so other OSes are SoL!
https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/10.0-RELEASE/usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/handbook/ACPI-debug.html
Steve
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