PfSense not accessible after CF change

MrJerry · Oct 9, 2008, 2:05 PM

Since I have made a bad mistake configuring pfsense, I had to re-transfer the image back to the CF using physdiskwrite. After that, I connected to the LAN interface via crossover expecting to get a DHCP lease and start configuring pfsense via web interface on 192.168.1.1 - just the way I did it when I got pfsense out of the box.

Unfortunetelly, it seems that I don't get a DHCP lease and can not connect to its web interface.

I have tried with the same image I got on the enclosed DVD (pfsense-1.2-RC4-embedded) and an embedded image downloaded from pfsense site (version 1.2). I have also tried another CF disk.

I am completely stuck here, so any help would be most welcome.

Cry Havok · Oct 9, 2008, 3:06 PM

Does the system boot? What's displayed on the (serial) console?

MrJerry · Oct 9, 2008, 3:43 PM

@Cry:

Does the system boot? What's displayed on the (serial) console?

I have no idea… I will get an access to a laptop with a serial port tomorrow.

How should I access the console? There is a putty program on the enclosed DVD. Is that it?

MrJerry · Oct 11, 2008, 9:26 AM

@Cry:

Does the system boot? What's displayed on the (serial) console?

I have solved the problem. Actually, there was no problem with pfsense but rather with the fact that Windows Vista I am using (don't ask me why) is apparently incapable of displaying any data over serial cable.

After I used a WinXP machine, everything worked fine. The boot-up process was interrupted at a point where you should provide information on vlans and name the interfaces. After that, all the services come up and you can access the webconfigurator through a web client on default IP and password.