On 15 October 2010 18:15, Gavin Spurgeon <gspurg...@dageek.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi Paul, > >>> On 14/10/10 23:44, Gavin Spurgeon wrote: >>>> Just stumbled upon this cool little PCI card over @ LinITX.com >>> ... >>>> mode, If I had a pfSense unit that could use this (or similar) PCI card >>>> I could scrap my current Cheap Home Router and just have a pfSense box >>>> connected direct to my ISP. >>> >> >> having had an external modem go bad (draytek vigor) after a bad >> thunderstorm but the attached computer survived without a glitch (on a >> UPS), I'd be very reluctant to integrate the ADSL card into a computer >> as there's bound to be less isolation. >> >> that said, if the card has a freebsd driver, it should work just fine. > > I would normally agree, but the PC in question would be a cheap ITX type > unit anyway, as I would rather not have 2 devices plugged in wasting > power when I could just have 1. This would be for a home www connection > anyway, so no real shame if it did blow up. > > The details of the card seem to say it is seen by the host system as a > Realtek 10/100 Network Port (RTL8100CL) and the card does the hard work. > > So I guess the real question is... > > Does pfSense support the RTL8100CL Nic ?
Not sure, I know FreeBSD does with the re driver, but not sure which version introduced support for it, but it went into FreeBSD over 2 years ago. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
