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Yes, i oredered the Topton with the Pentium N6005.
-1 because it supports M2-nvme drives (I already have one from the not working box) and has 2 so-dimm ddr4 slots and  I already have 2x8GB in my drawer ;)
-2 it has a bit more performance and I want to use incoming and outgoing VPN and all of that requires some power as well.

It should arrive april 8th ... cant wait \o/

These are the only 2 NIC's in the system. The bios is very primitive and disabling of any NIC is not an option
I beleave, sorry.
No cable attached is what I did, because I (wanted) to use autodetect when setting up the system.

I do appreciate your input tho :)
Im scanning the internet also for solutions and if anybody else has encountered this and most of all ... what did they do to solve this.

Going for a FreeBSD option is a bit of a problem for me. Im almost 55 and grew up with MS-DOS/Windows. I know a lot about MS products but absolutely 0 of Linux and similar OS's. But if I have to (and if it looks like that would solve my problem) then I will. Im not lazy  only very new at this.

I also looked aroud for another HW-solution. But many boxes have the same 2.5gbit NIC('s) and Im not sure they will work.

The box starts in eufi ... checked it also eufi usb-live cd ... It simply gives the same error all the time.
Im really not happy like this. Why does it not start the nic's? The box is very fast, and if the nic's would work, it is an amazing firewall.

Ill check if I can install freeBSD 13 and get OpnSense to work as a plugin or something like that. But without VirtualBox or any virtualisation ;)

So I dig in deeper, with your message in mind:
I first checked my firmware version of the NIC... It should be 1.45 (latest if im right)
But the check shows firmware version 1.79 !?!? so I cant update/downgrade...
Next thing, the firmware version belongs to the i225-it (if im right) but its a i225-v ???
Would that make the difference???
The i225 is a Rev.3 by the way.

The box starts via UEFI anyway as far as I can see.

If I run OpnSense as a VM under Virtualbox, I loose a lot of performance. Speedtest in Win10: 920mbit/s and in a VM I only get 150-200mbit/s... That's why I would really like to run OpnSense "bare" ;)

Im sorry for the screenprint, didnt know any other way to show the error message... Im not a Linux expert and new to OpnSense.

I really hope this will be solved in the upcoming update. The USB-nic's are (as expected) not very stable  :-\
Now I can only use the box for "educational purposes"   ??? But I must say, OpnSense certainly looks like its going to stay (if I can use these i225-V's) and ... I prefer it over PfSense. The look-and-feel is much better and the community is great!

About DHCP, I don't know. Im using a win2022 server with DHCP.
Maybe the i225-LM works, but my i225-V's are not recognized at install.
For the time being I ordered 2 USB nics and hope to find a solution soon.
I want give up ;)

 ??? Weird ... I downloaded the new img for 22.1 and clean installed it .... "No interfaces found"

I'm new to OpnSense so please, have some patience with me.
I've got a system with 2 Intel i225-V on board. So far I was trying OpnSense out in a VirtualBox, because the 17-versions didn't support the NIC's. Now in the 22.1 version, the support should be ok, becuse of FreeBSD13, right?
Just fresh installed 22.1 but .... "No interfaces found"...
Am I wrong? Does 22.1 not have support for these NIC's?

Edit: This guy had these NIC's working on the rc1.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=26381.msg128932#msg128932
Did the support for these NIC's got removed?

I'm a total newbie with OPNSense. And I had 21.7 running a bit in a Virtualbox to look around a bit. But I didn't install because: "No support for my i225-v nic's".

As I see now, i225-v's are supported now in the 22.1 version?  :o
WOW that makes me very happy!!
I'm sorry I can't answer on your question, I'm too new in OpnSense.

Just tested 22.1 but "No interfaces found" ....