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    Is the Broadcom BCM957414A4142CC (BCM57414) 25G NIC supported?

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      Yves_ @stephenw10
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      Recompiling a kernel to use in pfSense is a lot more involved. You need to build against the full pfSense sources.

      Steve

      yeah this is where i would have given up. but if i can just replace the module. i am very happy :-) to try that out and make a small "idiot" tutorial after

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        Yves_ @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 said in Is the Broadcom BCM957414A4142CC (BCM57414) 25G NIC supported?:

        No you can probably load the module in preference to the in kerne driver. Most drivers allow that.
        Create /boot/loader.conf.local and add to it:

        if_bnxt_load="YES"
if_bnxt_name="/path/to/module/if_bnxt.ko"

        Recompiling a kernel to use in pfSense is a lot more involved. You need to build against the full pfSense sources.

        Steve

        so if I understand you correctly I should not replace the if_bnxt.ko in /boot/kernel... I should put the new .ko file somewhere and tell the loader.conf (i don't have a loader.conf.local) to load this new driver?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Create loader.conf.local and use that. It won't be overwritten by other config changes.

          You can either replace the existing module or put it somewhere else and give it the path. I prefer the latter.

          Steve

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            Yves_ @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 Okay, I have done it the quick and dirty way. Just name the existing if_bnxt.ko to if_bnxt.ko.old and insert the newly compiled into /boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko. I still had to run ifconfig bnxt0 promisc to make the system work again :-( can I somehow check what pfSense loaded? Maybe it ignored if_bnxt.ko and it is somehow in the kernel after all?

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              Yves_ @Yves_
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              @yves_ update! replacing does not work... because the module is built into /boot/kernel/kernel

              Now I tried to load it with kldload /boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko

              KLD if_bnxt.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: /boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko - unsupported file type

              I guess back to squer one ;-)

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                At the console you should see it report that loading at boot before the kernel boots. Or an error if it can't load. You might also try changing a description line in the driver so you can see that in thr boot logs or sysctls where it reports it.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Ah, yes, like that!

                  Mmm, definitely not a 32bit module?

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                    Yves_ @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 well I used FreeBSD 12.3 Stable amd64 should I use FreeBSD 12.0 i386?

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      No, it should be 64bit but if you'd accidentally used 32bit it would have presented similarly to that.

                      Try building against 12.3-release instead, assuming you are running 2.6?

                      Or update to a 2.7 snapshot and try the 12-stable module there.

                      Steve

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                        Yves_ @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 I made a little mistake I used 12.3-Release amd64... if I do it with that one. Which I did. Can it happen that I mistakely compiled it 32bit? is just ran "make kernel"

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by stephenw10

                          No it will have built a 64bit module.

                          Do you actually see an updated module though? The file dates from when you compiled it?
                          The default install will already have the old module?

                          I would just try whatever you can. It might be that driver requires an absolute specific kernel version in which case you're probably out of luck.

                          Steve

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                            Yves_ @stephenw10
                            last edited by

                            @stephenw10 said in Is the Broadcom BCM957414A4142CC (BCM57414) 25G NIC supported?:

                            Do you actually see an updated module though? The file dates from when you compiled it?
                            The default install will already have the old module?

                            I would just try whatever you can. It might be that driver requires an absolute specific kernel version in which case you're probably out of luck.

                            Steve

                            I see the new date on the if_bnxt.ko so I guess this means it compiled the new module. But I did it on 12.3 Release now I downloaded 12.3 Stable and will do it again.

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                              Yves_ @Yves_
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                              @yves_ Soooo I recompiled the driver again. With 12.3-Stable AMD64, the version 12.0-Stable I could not find.

                              -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   225K Jul 27 18:33 if_bnxt.ko

                              Unfortunatly same result:

                              KLD if_bnxt.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: /boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko - unsupported file type
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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Hmm, damn. Can you try loading any of those into a 2.7 snapshot?

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                                  Yves_ @stephenw10
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10 This is from the system I used to compile the driver

                                  root@freebsd-12-3-stable:~ # kldload /boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko
root@freebsd-12-3-stable:~ # kldstat -v | grep if_bnxt
 5    1 0xffffffff82725000    162a0 if_bnxt.ko (/boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko)
root@freebsd-12-3-stable:~ # ls -lh /boot/kernel/if_bn*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   225K Jul 27 18:33 /boot/kernel/if_bnxt.ko

                                  As you can see it worked to load it on this system the drivers was compiled :-(

                                  I will start a VM with 2.7 snapshot and try to load it into that one.

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                                    Yves_ @Yves_
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                                    @yves_ Or you can try the file yourself if_bnxt.ko

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                      Shows as deleted. What was/is that compiled against?

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                                        Yves_ @stephenw10
                                        last edited by

                                        @stephenw10 sorry, stupid file provider :-) here you go: if_bnxt.zip its compiled against

                                        FreeBSD freebsd-12-3-stable 12.3-STABLE FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE GENERIC  amd64
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                                          Yves_ @Yves_
                                          last edited by

                                          @yves_ can I compile it on 2.6.0? some how? how do I get the source inside of the /usr/src folder? its currently empty

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Mmm, still fails in 2.7.

                                            Compiling pfSense is non-trivial. There are some guides about if you search but it's not something I can go into detail on here.

                                            Steve

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