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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