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    • L
      Lectrician
      last edited by

      I have a PC with an on board ethernet port.  I added a second ethernet card.  I configured the onboard port as the WAN.

      The onboard port worked with XP, but will not work with pfsense (orange light on router rather than green, and no WAN access.)

      I had another card, so added this as a third and reconfigured it to act as the WAN, using the onboard port for nothing.  It now works.

      I did want to use the onboard port rather than an addional card.  Is it worth worrying about?  I was considering using the onboard as a WAN and the two addional ports as two LANS (one for one building and one for another).

      Cheers for any pointers :-)

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
        last edited by

        Chipset of the NIC?
        pfSense 1.2.3 supports everything FreeBSD 7.2 supports.
        Is this card on the "supported hardware list"?
        If you look at the output of dmesg:
        There should be entries for the nonworking card.

        We do what we must, because we can.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          If you're feeling lucky you could try the 2.0 beta and it might support that chipset better.

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