pfsense not detecting my built in NIC

scottalanmiller

wget is a command line tool for downloading files from the web.

IT-ADMIN

ohh great, hhhhh the friendly GUI make us not interesting in command line,
but the command line method remain the most strong way of configuration
ok, so i can for example load the driver by using command line mode in pfsense ??

scottalanmiller

If you can find the driver, yes.

IT-ADMIN

ah, i see, this need some research on how to write the right script for doing so
is pfsense use the same syntax as linux ??? or it has specific syntax

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!

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.