Bill Marquette wrote: > On 9/25/06, Roberto Greiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install pfSense (1.0rc2) on a machine, but one of the >> boards, despite being identified during installation, does not seem to >> work. The leds show no signal of traffic, and a ping to the gateway gets >> no answer, neither from other machines on the same network (it's not a >> firewall issue, I've checked). >> >> All I know about the board is that it's from a brand named 'Kaiomy', and >> pfSense labeled it as fwe0. >> >> Does somebody know if this board can be brought to work? > > That's the Firewire network driver. The BUGS section of it's man page > is kind of interesting. > > BUGS > This driver emulates Ethernet in a very adhoc way and it does not > reserve > a stream channel using an isochronous manager. Note that this driver > uses a protocol which is very different from RFC 2734 (IPv4 over IEEE > 1394). > > I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this card doesn't work all > that well. BTW, are you sure that the Kaiomy really is the fwe > interface? :) Seems like it's probably your firewire card (assuming > you have one) not the Kaiomy NIC. > > --Bill Yes, actually the machine has 2 firewire interface, one onboard and one adicional card (don't ask, I wasn't the one who bought this machine :-P).
I found a driver disk for the NIC, and it seems to be realtek based. I'm trying to force interface rl0, to see if it works. Thank you, Roberto -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marcos Roberto Greiner | | | | Os otimistas acham que estamos no melhor dos mundos | | Os pessimistas tem medo de que isto seja verdade | | Murphy | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
