pfsense not detecting my built in NIC
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hhh, both of your suggestion are great and worth a try
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You bet. Hope that they help.
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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 -
Let us know if it works.
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everything work like a champ
thank you very much
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Awesome! Glad that it is working.
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thank you very much,
and for jaredBusch i'm very appreciated for his excellent ideabest regard
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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.
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Welcome to the MangoLassi community!
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@scottalanmiller Thank you!
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You will have the best luck with Intel based nics on BSD/Pfsense
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@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.
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@scottalanmiller Unfortunately i have already used the slot open for another NIC(intel).
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You might be stuck then. pfSense isn't really viable on that hardware. What about Smoothwall or VyOS?
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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
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You can get PCI/PCIE cards with 2-4 nics on one card. But they can get pricey being true server nic's
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I've used SmoothWall in the past, it was quite good: http://www.smoothwall.org/
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@scottalanmiller said:
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
Bookmarked, looks cool!
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Yeah, I can return the sing nic I have; however, I am interested in hacking this together for learning opportunity. I am looking at other options. How does zentyal stack up against smoothwall?
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@scottalanmiller Thanks for the recommendation; however, the system will have 10 locations setup with site-to-site vpn for a business. I have used pfsense for the past 5 years, but I'm not opposed to something new. We just got new hardware for each location, hence the nic issue.
