Kernel panic bnxt driver. on installation.

[agjecaj]

Hello.
Im having a problem during installation of pfsense.

I have 2 nic bnxt 10g that puts kernel in panic.
anything would help
i removed the cards and installed the system but goes in panic when i put them back.
thanks.

[bmeeks]

You will need to obtain and use a different network card. The most reliable cards on FreeBSD are Intel varieties that are a bit older. Don't expect the latest, greatest, bleeding edge NIC to work on FreeBSD.

There is obviously quite a severe bug in the driver for the card you are attempting to use.

[agjecaj]

i saw a post at freeBSD forum that addidnd these to loader.conf would bypass the error.

dev.bnxt.0.iflib.override_nrxqs="8"
dev.bnxt.0.iflib.override_ntxqs="8"
dev.bnxt.1.iflib.override_nrxqs="8"
dev.bnxt.1.iflib.override_ntxqs="8"

so im tryinig today if it works.

[bmeeks]

@agjecaj said in Kernel panic bnxt driver. on installation.:

i saw a post at freeBSD forum that addidnd these to loader.conf would bypass the error.

dev.bnxt.0.iflib.override_nrxqs="8"
dev.bnxt.0.iflib.override_ntxqs="8"
dev.bnxt.1.iflib.override_nrxqs="8"
dev.bnxt.1.iflib.override_ntxqs="8"

so im tryinig today if it works.

Ahh -- that might do it. Maybe the new iflib wrapper library is not properly detecting the number of queues that NIC exposes. But if putting this box into service as a production firewall, I personally would feel better with a NIC that didn't require any workarounds to prevent kernel panics.

[stephenw10]

You might try a 2.7 install too, if that isn't one. The drivers there are from FreeBSD main.

Steve