pfsense not detecting my built in NIC

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.

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

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

scottalanmiller

I've used SmoothWall in the past, it was quite good: http://www.smoothwall.org/

@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!