Intel i226-V not recognized
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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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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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@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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USB 3.0 to RJ45 GBit/s "for" pfSense
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@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? -
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. -
Yes, you can restore a CE config into Plus. No, it will not revert it to CE.
Steve
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I also just picked one a machine with the Intel i266 NICs and I am trying to install pfSense. Is it possible to install pfSense Plus directly and not have to upgrade from the CE version? I don't have a USB to Ethernet device to get the initial CE install setup.
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Not yet unfortunately. We are working on it.
Can you install and upgrade on something else and then move the drive?Steve
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@stephenw10 I don't have anything readily available to install and upgrade on. Do you have a timeframe of when the drivers will be available in the CE version or the direct Plus installer will be available?
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An CE snapshot built on main should be very soon now. There are still issues we are seeing but it's certainly good enough to test the hardware.
Steve
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I have just installed the latest 2.7.0 CE snapshot and can confirm that the Intel i266 NICs are working.
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I have just installed the latest 2.7.0 CE snapshot and can confirm that the Intel i266 NICs are working.
Thank you for this information.
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@stephenw10 said in Intel i226-V not recognized:
An CE snapshot built on main should be very soon now. There are still issues we are seeing but it's certainly good enough to test the hardware.
Steve
I’m sorry to ask. How do you update to a CE snapshot while the NIC is not functional? By USB, is there a compact procedure somewhere?
Thinking about buying the new 226 NIC for my router.
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I would install it clean from snapshots: https://www.pfsense.org/snapshots/
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@thebear said in Intel i226-V not recognized:
I’m sorry to ask. How do you update to a CE snapshot
while the NIC is not functional?If you were installing version 2.6 CE with ZFS
you could try out to upgrade to 2.7 Devel, if
not or if hardware will be not fully compatible
supported either part wise or fully, like in your
case I would also tending to install fresh like
@stephenw10 said.By USB, is there a compact procedure somewhere?
An 2.7 devel image on USB stick would be best matching.
- Make a Backup of the System settings
- Make a Backup of the entire system
- Serial console cable in place
- Download the image
- Download Balena Etcher
- Prepare the USB Stick
- Install pfSense using the USB Stick
Thinking about buying the new 226 NIC for my router.
What NICs are in use now or actual I mean?
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@stephenw10 said in Intel i226-V not recognized:
I would install it clean from snapshots: https://www.pfsense.org/snapshots/
Thanks for replying so fast, appreciated.
Currently running a Intel NUC7i3BNK with this NIC Intel
Ethernet Connection I219-V.I was thinking of installing the nightly 2.7, boot it with I226-V support. And then upgrade to pfSense plus 22.05 where the driver is also embedded. Then restoring the config when back on 22.05 the same as my current router.
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You can't upgrade from 2.7 to 22.05 because technically that's a downgrade and that's not supported. To get to 22.05 you need to come from 2.6.
Steve
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Hi Steve, and with 2.6 the NIC's are not recognized. So 2.7 with a 22.05 backupfile wil fit my needs I guess?
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@thebear said in Intel i226-V not recognized:
Hi Steve, and with 2.6 the NIC's are not recognized. So 2.7 with a 22.05 backupfile wil fit my needs I guess?
Version 2.6 stable >upgrade>to> 22.05 stable
Version 2.7 Developer >upgrade>to> 22.09 or 22.11 Developer
