pfsense not detecting my built in NIC

[scottalanmiller]

No. It's not related to Linux. BSD is its own OS family.

[IT-ADMIN]

ok, i see, i will get around

thank you all

see you with another topic

[scottalanmiller]

Might be easier to test out something else. Have you looked at SmoothWall?

[JaredBusch]

Easiest thing to do would be to buy an add on card that is compatible and forget about the built in NIC.

[IT-ADMIN]

hhh, both of your suggestion are great and worth a try
thank you a lot

[scottalanmiller]

You bet. Hope that they help.

[IT-ADMIN]

oooooooooooooh, very very gooooood idea, i make another additional NIC and pfsense recognize them both
thank you very much Mr jaredBusch and Mr scott too
we learn from you too much, i hope one day i can help others

[scottalanmiller]

Let us know if it works.

[IT-ADMIN]

everything work like a champ

thank you very much

[scottalanmiller]

Awesome! Glad that it is working.

[IT-ADMIN]

thank you very much,
and for jaredBusch i'm very appreciated for his excellent idea

best regard

[ual4720]

I'm just curious. How did you convert the driver over for pfsense? I am having a heck of a time getting they Optiplex 3020 Internal nic to work with pfsense.

I've tried ndisgen and attempted iconv on pfsense but I've had zero luck. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[scottalanmiller]

Welcome to the MangoLassi community!

[ual4720]

@scottalanmiller Thank you!

[A Former User]

You will have the best luck with Intel based nics on BSD/Pfsense

[scottalanmiller]

@ual4720 said:

I'm just curious. How did you convert the driver over for pfsense? I am having a heck of a time getting they Optiplex 3020 Internal nic to work with pfsense.

I've tried ndisgen and attempted iconv on pfsense but I've had zero luck. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

I don't believe that he did. In this case, if I read what he wrote correctly, he solved the issue by buying a third party NIC to use instead. Likely an Intel card, they are the most popular now and not expensive.

[ual4720]

@scottalanmiller Unfortunately i have already used the slot open for another NIC(intel).

[scottalanmiller]

You might be stuck then. pfSense isn't really viable on that hardware. What about Smoothwall or VyOS?

[scottalanmiller]

If this is for home, Sophos has a free download option too... http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx

[A Former User]

You can get PCI/PCIE cards with 2-4 nics on one card. But they can get pricey being true server nic's