Help installing to from a usb cf card on an acer aspire 5517

stephenw10

Ah OK. So the test has failed at part 1.
Firstly, is the client actually connecting to pfSense correctly on a hardware level? If you have it directly connected you may need to use a crossover cable or insert a switch. Do you have lights on the ethernet cards/ switch?
Since you are running in VM you should be to copy and paste the output of 'ifconfig' from the console, please do. E.g.

[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(3): ifconfig
em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic>ether 00:90:7f:31:4b:f0
        inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::290:7fff:fe31:4bf0%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
em1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:90:7f:31:4b:ee
        inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
        inet6 fe80::290:7fff:fe31:4bee%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active</full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

Otherwise it's likely the dhcp server is not running or misconfigured. Try running:

clog /var/log/dhcpd.log

You should see requests and acknowledgements for IP addresses on the LAN.

Steve

antleo

All the nics have the led on but the one from the console to my windows machine just flashes

stephenw10

So you have the windows machine connected directly to the laptop with pfSense on it?
At the moment there seems to be some doubt about the LAN connection at the hardware level. If you can give us the output of ifconfig we can be sure.
It's possible that neither end of the connection supports auto-mdix in which case you will need to use a cross-over cable or s switch.

Steve

antleo

How do I get the if confit output? And I had it working at some point were I could get to the Webgui with strait patch cables and such so?

stephenw10

Sorry I got confused between threads. You are not running pfSense in a vm so you can't copy and paste from the console.
To run ifconfig go to the console menu select option 8, shell. Then type 'ifconfig' at the command prompt. Confirm that your lan interface is UP and the media status is autodetect.

Steve