Disable the onboard firewire controller and remove the additional card. Should cause less conflicts besides removing the confusion.
Holger > -----Original Message----- > From: Roberto Greiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:03 PM > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Kaiomy ethernet board > > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
