On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Paul Gear <p...@gear.dyndns.org> wrote: > On 07/07/12 14:33, Adam Van Ornum wrote: >>> >>> FreeBSD's driver apparently is much improved in later releases (remember, >>> pfSense is based on 7.3, which is quite a few years old now), so it's >> just >>> a matter of waiting until pfSense 2.1(???) comes out, based on FreeBSD 8, >>> or 9, or whatever the next evolutionary step is. >> >> For what it's worth, pfSense 2.0.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.1, not 7.3, and >> I believe that 2.1 is going to be on FreeBSD 8.3. > > Yes - my pfSense shows up as being FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6. > > Can anyone comment on the quality of the Broadcom driver in post-8.1 > releases? Is there any way to run a more recent kernel in conjunction > with pfSense? >
Short of running 2.1, not easily. I do have some customer systems running 2.1 in production for several months because 8.1 didn't support some component (RAID card IIRC) that 8.3 does. _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
