Intel i226-V not recognized

thebear

@souk Or install the development build (nightly) of 2.7.0, play for a few weeks. Export your config and do a fresh install of 2.7.0 if its stil in your mind that nightly build are not great.

It's a lot of work to install clean for 226v nics. In fact with a new router you got the play phase where you enable every option, use that with the nightly build.

SOUK

@thebear firstly, does the nightly build allow you to roll back to Stable?

If not who really wants to risk their system becoming broken every time a risky update comes out, I know I don't.
You say its allot of effort to do a fresh install for i226 NICs, but is it really considering that user wont have a huge config yet. Remember, as mentioned he's new to it and just bought his nice new shiny hardware. As he's got nice new purpose built hardware why not install a clean STABLE operating system on it and try to have the smoothest experience possible from the start.
If he's got two compatible USB2Ethernet adapters and a TopTon unit like mine the whole fresh install and migration can be done in like 20 minutes.
Who wants to wait for the update when you've just spend hundreds on hardware and you can have it up and running today ? Some might want to wait, but not me.
If he wants as little effort as possible and stability he should just install OPNsense and be done with it.

Both OPNsense and OpenWRT worked great with i226 from fresh installs for me, It was nice to us OpenWRT for a change and actually be able to get amazing WIFI @ the router too, which is something both OPNsense and PFsense fail miserably at still in the year 2023. Madness!

thebear

@souk said in Intel i226-V not recognized:

@thebear firstly, does the nightly build allow you to roll back to Stable?

You can always reuse the config in a higher version, right @stephenw10 ?

All the other choices are up to you, good luck.

stephenw10

Indeed the config file is backwards compatible but you can't (or shouldn't at least) use a config from 2.7 in 2.6. You can see the config file versions here:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/versions.html
So currently you can use a 2.7 config in 23.01.

If you install ZFS you can can roll back between versions but compatibility for that was only added in 22.05 so you can't roll back to a 22.01 or 2.6 BE snapshot.

Steve

JimBob Indiana

@stephenw10

“ you install ZFS you can can roll back between versions”

That’s good news if its only limited to “newer” versions.

voggur

Hi all I see on the internet allot of complains regarding the i225-V and i226-V.
For the i225-V have performance problems and no good for more than 1Gb
And the i226-V have connections drop issues.
I assume that these are Windows users so I am wandering if any one here using i226-V with pfsense are heaving problems?

thebear

@voggur zero problems

stephenw10

The i225-V issues with hardware versions before rev3 seemed to affect all OS types. I saw reports of issues there in FreeBSD. I have not seen any issues with the rev3 NICs we have in the 6100. Not have I seen any problems with the i226-V NICs in the 8200.

Steve

JimBob Indiana

@voggur
No issues with 5 I-225's here.... one dual port.

JimBob Indiana

@jimbob-indiana said in Intel i226-V not recognized:

That’s good news if its only limited to “newer” versions.

That is supposed to say "That's good news EVEN if its only limited to newer versions."

MarinSNB

@stephenw10 Would it be possible to view the revision # via CLI in pfsense?

Thank you!

stephenw10

Yes, you can see it in the output of pciconf:

[23.01-RC[root@4100.stevew.lan]/root: pciconf -lv igc0
igc0@pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x020000 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x15f3 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'Ethernet Controller I225-V'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

MarinSNB

@stephenw10 Thank you so much!!

JimBob Indiana

How is the little box working now?

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been watching as am curious about getting one of these as well.

Milithor

@souk
Greatly appreciated you taking the time to explain this.
Managed to install it using two USBs, after upgrade I was able to switch it to the i226 ports.

Cheers!

Darryl

@jimbob-indiana No problems at all with the Topton Model-A N5105. Been running 24x7 for 3 months (outside of power outages).

Despite that, I think if I was going to do it again I would probably just buy the netgate 2100. In hindsight, for my home use, I think it would be better to have an embedded, dedicated device to do the firewalling, and I didn't really HAVE to have the 2.5Gb ports on the firewall. If you plan to boost your Internet speed beyond 1Gb, then maybe its worth it to someone to roll your own to save some money. In my case, I just wanted to do it for "fun".
But I could have used the little PC to run VMs for other less critical tasks where you can experiment without taking the Internet down; route between your VLANs, run Pi hole, etc.
Despite the so-far-so-good outcome, I have trouble trusting that this little PC is going to be good for the long haul. Maybe I worry too much... but I feel the netgate is an embedded, low power, low heat device made to last. An aliexpress PC is a big 'who knows'. If it breaks, who am I going to call for warranty and how long (if ever) to get it replaced? Now that pfsense is all configured in a VM, I don't want to slow it down or put anything on there that could compromise security or reliability. IMHO, A PC is really overkill as a pfsense only box and that's what I've ended up doing. YRMV

mUnChiE

I can't get 2.6 or 2.7 installed on this device:

Firewall Hardware, Intel Celeron Qaud Core J4125, HUNSN RS17k, Pfsense Plus, OPNsense, Mikrotik, VPN, Network Appliance, Router PC, AES-NI, 4 x Intel I226-V 2.5Gbe, Console, VGA, 8G RAM, 64G SSD

Any idea how to get CE installed on this? Doesn't detect NICs and install fails :(

stephenw10

2.7 just shows no NICs? Does it show attach failures in the boot log?

What are the PCI IDs those NICs appear as if you boot something else?

Steve

rivageeza

I too am about to put a Topton Model A device in place at home.

Can anyone recommend a USB to Ethernet adapter available on Amazon UK? I'm hoping to get this sorted in the next few days.

The one advantage I do have is that my existing system has a m.2 pcie slot, is it possible I could put the new hard drive into my existing PC, install 2.6, update to 23.01, then remove the drive and plug it into the Topton? Would that work?

If not I guess I'll have to go down the USB to Ethernet route, which I understand I'd need two of? Not 100% on what the best way to get it working is, would I just set it up from scratch like my existing setup, ie plug wan into wan and lan into lan, or connect the Topton to my existing working LAN and somehow update it that way?

Thanks!

stephenw10

That would work. You would need to re-assign the interfaces at the console at first boot on the i226 device. And the NDI would be different so you would need to re-register it.
If you wait a few days it should be possible to upgrade to 23.01 from 2.7 which should remove this issue.

Steve