On 8 July 2011 16:48, David Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Jostein Elvaker Haande > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have the same problem on one of my pfSense installations, with a >> Realtek 8112 chipset (onboard NIC). The card refuses to come up on >> every even numbered boot (which occurs quite often, seeing as it's >> being run with 2.0RCx). The only workaround I've found, is to reboot >> the machine and it comes back up again. Really annoying, and I've >> tried to search for a solution both on the forums and on Google, but >> found nothing. > > Are you running nanoBSD/embedded? This version keeps two images on > your boot device and upgrades only the non-running image. The default > behaviour is to boot the same image each time unless you specify the > alternate or do an upgrade, but if yours is alternating each reboot > for some reason then this may explain your luck.
No, it's a fully fledged hard drive installation. I've also followed the hints as of disabling unnecessary hardware in BIOS, set the BIOS to "None PNP" etc, to no avail. Every second time the machine is rebooted, the NIC fails to come up, resulting in the interface mismatch. I run this Realtek onboard NIC with a dual port Intel card, and even got my hands on a PCI-X version of a quad port Intel NIC to disable the onboard NIC, but the PCI-X version of the Intel NIC's won't fit in a normal PCI slot. -- Yours sincerely Jostein Elvaker Haande "A free society is a place where it is safe to be unpopular" - Adlai Stevenson http://tolecnal.net -- tolecnal at tolecnal dot net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
