Thanks for the suggestions.
Does...
At the Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
...mean the same thing as the bootloader screen?
...mean the same thing as the bootloader screen?
I broke out to the "ok" prompt and the system did not like the commands listed in
Updating the BIOS would be quite a bit of work, so I'd like to avoid that.
I also tried installing to the hard drive and I rx'd an error message indicating that there was no hard drive. There is, and it works fine with the OS that's installed on it. Can I assume this is somehow related to ACPI as well?
I'll give it another shot tommorrow. Am I missing something obvious here?
On 3/21/06, Scott Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How to turn off ACPI is listed here:
http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions
On 3/21/06, Fuchs, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had the same problem before i got my fxp's when i had xls too.
>
> The problem was the acpi mode...
>
> Turn it off and 99% it will work...
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. März 2006 22:30
> An: support@pfsense.com
> Betreff: Re: [pfSense Support] 3com NIC prob
>
> Be sure and turn off all peripherals not needed in the machines bios.
> Parallel port, serial ports, etc, etc.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On 3/21/06, Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > barney gumbo wrote:
> > > I am trying out the live CD of pfsense. The only problem I have is
> > > my third NIC, xl0, which is a 3Com 3c900-TPO Etherlink XL does not
> > > link up. I get a physical link light on the locally connected
> > > switch (an smc, dumb switch). When I was running IPCop on this same
> > > box (with the same 3 NIC's) I did not have this problem. The NIC
> > > and driver starts fine on boot up, according to dmesg.boot. When I
> > > do an ifconfig -a, the NIC is active but not up. The 3Com 3c900-TPO
> > > is supposedly fully supported by FreeBSD 6.0.
> > >
> > > I've tried rebooting the box without luck. So far everything else
> > > is great, I would just like this third interface to use for a wireless LAN.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what the problem could be?
> >
> >
> > I've got an xl0 as my WAN.
> > No problems so far - it's plugged into a Cisco 29something switch though.
> > And I don't know if the NIC is exactly the same model.
> >
> > Advice: Pick up a some fxps from ebay.
> > ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> > Rainer
> >
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