No Interfaces Found!
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I recently bought a low power celeron board with dual onboard nics for my new pfsense box. I grabbed the 2gig nanobsd i386 file and put it on my SSD following the instructions using PhysGUI. The system boots up fine, but it does not detect ANY interfaces. So I can not assign any interface to a VLAN or WAN. I took the same SSD and put it on another uITX board I have. It gives me the same error.
I have successfully gotten this system to work on an old HP box. That box draws 130 watts. The new system should only draw 35 watts. So I want the low power. This new system does not see the NICs. I hope I didn't just give Tigerdirect $140 for a sleek paper weight.
Can someone please help?!? My google skillz have turned up nothing that can help.
Thank you in advance for any and all help
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I found my old install cd with version 2.0.1
I tried booting up with just the CD and no SSD. It does the same thing. It does not see any NICS. Neither uITX board.
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Are you sure that the NICs are supported under FreeBSD 8.1….
Perhaps you want to try with pfSense 2.1... which is based on FreeBSD 8.3
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The new board says it's REALTEK. I will try 2.1 and see if that helps.
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So I did try the 2.1 RC0 and it worked. It saw both em0 and em1. Great suggestion!
Now I will when for the actual release. I don't have time atm for testing.
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Yeah - I had the same issue with a board a friend of mine impulsively bought for a build with realtek Network. This was before 2.1, and the box is on the other side of the planet and can't be distributed, so I was stuck having him drop in a intel PCIe dual port NIC and the onboard realtek ports go unused. I'm not willing to risk breaking state side VPN access for a bunch of guys out in Afghanistan so I'll upgrade to 2.1 later.
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2.1 Has some ease-of-use improvements. First is with a Wizard after you assign your NICs on the console. Wish there was a wizard for rules and port forwarding for morons like myself.