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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      The driver is in-kernel so you can't easily move that individually.

      I would suggest just moving the boot drive from the old device running Plus to the new device with the i226 NICs. At least as a test.

      Steve

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        manupfdude @stephenw10
        last edited by manupfdude

        @stephenw10 the old machine has an mSata SSD as the new machine has an NVMe drive, will imaging the mSata ssd and restore the image to the new machine's NVMe drive work?

        Edit:
        After reading some posts it's not really recommended approach...
        Any advise will be more than welcome 🙂

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Since it's only really as a test you could try installing to USB and booting from that in the new device.

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            manupfdude @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 not sure I understood your suggestion,what about this idea - l'll do a fresh install, connect 2 usb to lan adapters, assign them, convert to pf plus (which now raises another Q) upgrade reboot and check.
            It should do the job, right?
            And for other Q raised:
            If the old machine is already running pf plus(activated with a key I got a while back) , will I be able to use the same key to upgrade the new machine? Will the older one needs to disconnected from the internet in order for me to use the same key?
            What's the recommended approach? 🤔
            As you can see, I'm eager to get it working, I'm more than happy to help, just need the proper guidance 🙃

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Yes, that should work. You only actually need one USB NIC to allow it to install and upgrade.

              You need a different key to upgrade as the NDI will be different on the new box

              Steve

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                manupfdude @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 Just to clarify :-)
                only 1 is needed?
                Should this 1 adapter be assigned as LAN or WAN?
                Does pf requires an internet connection to do the upgrade?
                trying to understand the logic
                if no internet required than I can understand to assign it to LAN and upgrade via the UI, if not than I guess I'm missing something here

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  It will always be WAN when there's only one NIC detected.

                  Yes it requires an internet connection to upgrade from CE to Plus.

                  So you would connect it to your existing network behind another router. The WAN will pull a DHCP lease in that subnet. You will be able to connect to it from a client in that subnet because with only one NIC the default rules apply to WAN.
                  Run the upgrade. It should then see the 226 NICs and you can assign them as normal.

                  Steve

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                    manupfdude @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 You my friend are the man!!!
                    I can confirm that (after 2 hours of fiddling) pf plus 22.05 was able to identify the i-226v NICs.
                    I'm currently running on the new machine!!!
                    I haven't been able to test long run times and stability (yet) 🤞 , speed looks great so far - I'll keep updating.
                    Steve - Thank you again for your time and support 💪

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Nice result! 👍

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                        mango
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                        I ran into the same situation. This post was super helpful to me!! Thank you for the help!

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                          manupfdude
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                          Hi all,

                          I'm happy you've found this post helpful and I hope it saved you from frustration and precious time trying to understand why it's not working.
                          I'm updating that the machine's uptime is 1 Day 06 Hours 44 Minutes 41 Seconds. No errors/link status change seen in the logs of my NICs.
                          Look and feel very stable.
                          pfSense FTW!

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                            A Former User
                            last edited by A Former User

                            wrong site, sorry!

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                              manupfdude @A Former User
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                              @dobby_ Sorry, I don't understand your post and how it's related here. care to elaborate?

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Hmm, yeah that looks like a mis-post?

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                                  red1337
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                                  Hi community

                                  I'm also in the same boat. Is there any ETA for this to work in pfSense CE 2.7 Development?

                                  Depending on the timeframe, Im willing to use the "Plus" method with a USB to Ethernet device. Any recommendations for working USB NIC?

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                                    mango
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                                    I had a Spigen CA100 USB adapter that worked great. Pfsense recognized it as an interface without any problems. I also tried a "Pluggable USBC-E2500" and that one wasn't recognized by pfsense. I had both adapters and one of them worked and the other did not. I'm not really sure what made the difference.

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @mango
                                      last edited by stephenw10

                                      @mango said in Intel i226-V not recognized:

                                      I'm not really sure what made the difference

                                      RTL8152 1G vs RTL8156 2.5G. The 8156 is significantly newer so not yet supported in FreeBSD 12.
                                      The ure(4) driver supports rtl8152
                                      rtl8156 is supported by the cdce driver in FreeBSD 13.

                                      Steve

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                                        A Former User @red1337
                                        last edited by

                                        @red1337

                                        USB 3.0 to RJ45 GBit/s "for" pfSense
                                        Runs out of the box

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                                          red1337 @A Former User
                                          last edited by red1337

                                          @dobby_ just got my adapter which is recognised by pfsense. Thanks for your advice!
                                          Is it possible to setup CE with a new/blank config, upgrade to plus and then restore my CE config? Or would that revert the whole box to CE?

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                                            A Former User @red1337
                                            last edited by

                                            @red1337

                                            Is it possible to setup CE with a new/blank config,
                                            upgrade to plus and then restore my CE config?

                                            I can´t say something about this, I am on 22.09 Devel
                                            and was only using my config from 22.05 to 22.09 Devel
                                            and all was working fine.

                                            Or would that revert the whole box to CE?

                                            No I don´t think so, I would say your backup is not able to
                                            be used in this case and the config backup someone other should be jumping in.

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