I have been building a few HP thin clients (HP t5720, t5730 and t5740) and turning them into pfSense routers. I like the form factor and performance while being light on the power usage. I have a new batch of thin clients HP t5740 that I was loading up and I noticed one odd thing, I usually have the built-in NIC be the WAN port and on this new group when the WAN configuration is coming up it turns off the link lights, both of them, link and activity.
The card appears to be a BCM57780 card and from what I can tell is functional, pulls a DHCP address and I can ping and move data, ifconfig shows that it is active and up. The only issue is the link light and activity light they are both out, they work up to the point that the interface comes up then they go out.
I have tried the latest version of pfSense 2.1 (based on 8.3) but it exhibits the same symptom, I was going to try a FreeBSD livecd but have not had the chance yet to test it.
I'm a Linux guy so I have to learn the commands to do stuff, but if anyone has any suggestions that might get the lights back on that would be great, I have posted to the pfSense forums and Broadcom and have not found an answer yet, thanks.
The card appears to be a BCM57780 card and from what I can tell is functional, pulls a DHCP address and I can ping and move data, ifconfig shows that it is active and up. The only issue is the link light and activity light they are both out, they work up to the point that the interface comes up then they go out.
I have tried the latest version of pfSense 2.1 (based on 8.3) but it exhibits the same symptom, I was going to try a FreeBSD livecd but have not had the chance yet to test it.
I'm a Linux guy so I have to learn the commands to do stuff, but if anyone has any suggestions that might get the lights back on that would be great, I have posted to the pfSense forums and Broadcom and have not found an answer yet, thanks.