Problem Installing w/ Shuttle XH61V

[jcal]

Hi, I am very new to pfsense ( have some limited *nix experience).Apologies in advance if this is a really dumb question.

I have purchased a Shuttle XH61V Barebones unit (since it has 2 nic), and added a 2 core celeron processor and 4Gb of RAM.

I am having an issue installing Pfsense. It boots fine, however, when I need to select network interfaces (auto-detect) it will not detect any.

Is this a driver problem, or have i done something wrong.

Booting from an external USB CD Drive with Pfsense 2.0.2 (x64) .iso

Thanks in advance.

[wallabybob]

Maybe pfSense is not detecting the NICs at all (in which case you might get better results using a pfSense 2.1 snapshot build because that includes much more up to date device drivers than earlier versions of pfSense) OR you aren't connecting the NICs, one at a time, as prompted, to a switch or other computer so pfSense can use detection of ethernet carrier as the indicator of what NIC is to be used for what purpose.

[matguy]

It quite possibly could be a driver issue.  That board has 2x Realtek 8111E NICs onboard, which seems to be only supported in some revisions of the chip.  Like Wallabybob said, maybe try a 2.1 snapshot.

Here's a thread from a while ago talking about that chipset: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41742.0.html

[stephenw10]

Yep, it definitely works in 2.1:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,54008.0.html

If you don't want to use beta there are some newer drivers comiled for 2.0.X here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,58150.0.html

I would expect them to work with your box as reported here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,56950.msg311750.html#msg311750

Steve

[jcal]

Thankyou all. I will try using the 2.2 version, and see if that works.

I'm planning to put this device into production so i may need to revert back to a stable release, but my first goal is just to get it running.

Will keep you posted as to progress.