pfSense Help

[Riceis5life]

Hello, I'm kind of new to pfSense and need help with setup. I have an intel core i5 3470 and 8gb of ram on a Biostar h61 mobo. For my NIC I am using an intel PRO/1000 Ptquadport. When I do the setup for pfsense everything is fine until I am to setup the WAN and LAN ports, pfsense only recognizes em0(the WAN) and nothing else. I only have my modem hooked up to the NIC via ethernet cable, how do I setup so I also have LAN. Any help is appreciated.

[gabe927]

Are you trying to use the automatic detection or manual selection?

[Riceis5life]

10 minutes ago, gabe927 said:

Are you trying to use the automatic detection or manual selection?

I'm using manual, I think pfSense doesn't recognize my NIC. but it works perfectly when I tested it out in windows.

[gabe927]

Just now, Riceis5life said:

I'm using manual, I think pfSense doesn't recognize my NIC. but it works perfectly when I tested it out in windows.

What NIC are you using?

[Riceis5life]

Just now, gabe927 said:

What NIC are you using?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OZC98C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This one

[gabe927]

Is the WAN going through the card or the mobo?

[Riceis5life]

Just now, gabe927 said:

Is the WAN going through the card or the mobo?

The WAN is going through the mobo, because non of the other rj-45 ports are recognized.

[gabe927]

Try going into the bios and running the card at a lower speed, something like gen1 or gen2.  Lets see if that fixes it.

[Riceis5life]

8 minutes ago, gabe927 said:

Try going into the bios and running the card at a lower speed, something like gen1 or gen2.  Lets see if that fixes it.

Just tried both, still no luck

[gabe927]

Try adding hint.agp.0.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf

[Sir Asvald]

10 hours ago, Riceis5life said:

Just tried both, still no luck

Did you connect both WAN and LAN during the installation? Did you configure them both?

[Falconevo]

If you go to Interfaces > Assign, can you allocate the additional interfaces?

You can also visit Status > Interfaces which will show ALL available interfaces regardless of if they are active or not

[Riceis5life]

3 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

Did you connect both WAN and LAN during the installation? Did you configure them both?

I connected my modem to my NIC, but non of the interfaces show up, just the one on the motherboard

[Falconevo]

1 hour ago, Riceis5life said:

I connected my modem to my NIC, but non of the interfaces show up, just the one on the motherboard

1000 PT has built in driver support, have you checked the Status > Interfaces tab to see if they are present? 

[Riceis5life]

29 minutes ago, Falconevo said:

1000 PT has built in driver support, have you checked the Status > Interfaces tab to see if they are present? 

Is that in the web GUI, I don't have access to that

[Falconevo]

2 hours ago, Riceis5life said:

Is that in the web GUI, I don't have access to that

Yes,

If you don't have access to the other quad port NICs do the following;

Set the following IP on your WAN interface;
IP - 192.168.0.1
Subnet - /24 (255.255.255.0)

Gateway - None

 

Then within the Console, goto Command Line and type - pfctl -d  

This will disable the firewall completely (until you make an ammendment)

Then plug your laptop/desktop to the WAN port, assign yourself the following IP information;

IP 192.168.0.2
Subnet - 255.255.255.0

GateWay - 192.168.0.1

DNS - 192.168.0.1

Then goto;

https://192.168.0.1 in your web browser on the laptop/desktop.  This will give you access to the WebGUI within pfSense, here you can see if the interfaces exist or not.

[Riceis5life]

@Falconevo 

I am in the web gui and went to stats > interfaces and the only one there is the WAN

[Falconevo]

3 hours ago, Riceis5life said:

@Falconevo 

I am in the web gui and went to stats > interfaces and the only one there is the WAN

Goto Interfaces > Assign and see what else is present

[Riceis5life]

21 minutes ago, Falconevo said:

Goto Interfaces > Assign and see what else is present

nothing else other than the wan is there

[Falconevo]

1 minute ago, Riceis5life said:

nothing else other than the wan is there

Nothing present in available network ports at the bottom?  If not the card is clearly not being detected, I use a PT1000 in another machine, is the PT a PCI-Express card?  

I would also check your BIOS to make sure the PCI-Express slot the card is using is active.