I'm going to give pfsense a try and report back. The motherboard 
manufacturer reported they only support FreeBSD 4.7 and above. Since I don't 
have a CD or floppy drive on this box I'm going to flash the IDE module with 
pfsense and see what happens.

Lesson for everyone: if you are building a new box add CD drive even if you 
don't plan to use it regularly. It makes trouble shooting a lot easier.

t.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Buechler" <cbuechler at gmail dot com>
Cc: "m0n0wall list" <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Intel interface problems continue


>
> FreeBSD 4.x can be very finicky about new hardware, especially onboard
> NIC's.  From what I've seen, the BIOS generally likes to share an IRQ
> between onboard NIC's and your USB ports, or some other hardware.  4.x
> won't detect a NIC that's sharing an IRQ.
>