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    • K
      kejianshi
      last edited by

      Network cards are usually cheaper than computers.

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        firefox
        last edited by

        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 result

        If 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 problems

        Another 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 ?

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          Guest
          last edited by

          You need to assign them to interfaces.

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            firefox
            last edited by

            I know that
            The problem is that pfsense not even recognize the cards as if there is nothing there

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              Guest
              last edited by

              what does pciconf show

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                firefox
                last edited by

                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

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  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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                    firefox
                    last edited by

                    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 result

                    So 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 ?

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      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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                        piercearmitage
                        last edited by piercearmitage

                        Are you still facing this issue? Try fake credit card numbers that work for online shopping. It might help you.

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