Driver for FDDI NIC appears to be absent in 2.0.2
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Just installed and booted 2.0.2. The box has 4 NICs installed. The 3 ethernet NICs were detected and drivers loaded.
However, the 4th NIC, a PCI FDDI card 3COM 3C795 was detected but NO driver loaded. I am guessing this driver is
not present in the 2.0.2 build?see attachment dmesg.pfsense.022213.txt, line 72
Requesting that the FDDI driver 'fpa' be built/loaded into the next release of pfsense, please.
advTHANKSance
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Was it working on 2.0 or 2.0.1? If not, then it won't be on 2.0.2 either, or the coming 2.0.3 - the underlying FreeBSD 8.1 and driver set is the same.
For new/fancy/less usual hardware the best bet is to try the 2.1-BETA1 - that is based on FreeBSD 8.3 and has drivers for more stuff. -
OK, I understand. This is my first real attempt at using pfsense as a perimeter firewall router. So, I don't know what NIC drivers were present in prior distros. I have been running a Fedora 13 distro using iptables as a fw router for the last few years. Linux has a working FDDI driver (defpa) since those devices were built (before 2005).
I picked up a bunch of these NICs, a fiber hub plus a few dozen cables, at salvage some years ago. They makeup a small network in an instrument lab. But if this is becoming a show stopper for me, perhaps I should reevaluate. 1) look into whether pfsense 2.1-BETA loads fpa; 2) building FBSD 9.x plus the extra parts, or 3) lay out more $$ to replace this legacy stuff with current GigE?
I would like to dump this Linux+iptables mess that I have and move to pf. And I prefer to use a working appliance and spend the extra time to work on my own projects.
cb
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One way (wich may/may not be acceptable) is to build a virtualization host with support for your nics and then put the Pfsense box as a VM on that server.