Hardware driver

[regentofgaia]

Hey everyone!

I have bought a 4 port 2.5gb NIC with Realtek 8125B Chip and the pfSense doesn't detect the hardware. Need some advice

[stephenw10]

Use the alternative Realtek driver. What pfSense version are you using?

[regentofgaia]

Thank you @stephenw10 I am using the 2.6.0-RELEASE

[stephenw10]

At the command line run:

pkg-static add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_4/All/realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg

Then:

echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
echo 'if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

Then reboot and check the boot logs show the 1.97 driver:

re0: <Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xf7a00000-0xf7a00fff,0xf7900000-0xf7903fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
re0: Using Memory Mapping!
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: ASPM disabled
re0: version:1.97.00
re0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:38:30:10

Steve

[regentofgaia]

@stephenw10 said in Hardware driver:

At the command line run:

pkg-static add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_4/All/realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg

Then:

echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
echo 'if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

Then reboot and check the boot logs show the 1.97 driver:

re0: <Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xf7a00000-0xf7a00fff,0xf7900000-0xf7903fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
re0: Using Memory Mapping!
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: ASPM disabled
re0: version:1.97.00
re0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:38:30:10

Steve

This work flawlessly. Thank you so much Steve!

Irwin

[Gradius]

It won't really works on last version (2.7):
[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.home.arpa]/: pkg-static add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_4/All/realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg
Fetching realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg: 100% 100 KiB 102.1kB/s 00:01
Installing realtek-re-kmod-197.00...
pkg-static: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:12:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:14:amd64

Failed to install the following 1 package(s): https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_4/All/realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg

As v2.7 uses FreeBSD 14.0

[Gradius]

As v2.7 uses FreeBSD 14.0

This worked btw:

pkg install realtek-re-kmod

Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
realtek-re-kmod: 198.00_1 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be installed: 1

102 KiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Fetching realtek-re-kmod-198.00_1.pkg: 100% 102 KiB 104.2kB/s 00:01
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Installing realtek-re-kmod-198.00_1...
[1/1] Extracting realtek-re-kmod-198.00_1: 100%

[stephenw10]

Yes the pkg is in our repo in 2.7 so you can just install it directly. That also means it's build for the specific kernel used by pfSense.

[Spectrum]

@stephenw10 hello everyone. i am a new user, i installed pfsense on my machine and i wanted to install Realtek RTL8125B dual port 2.5G drivers. i followed what you wrote but as user @Gradius says with pfsense 2.7.0 it can't be done anymore. I tried sending the command directly into the machine (pfsense) as root@pfsense.xxxxx.local/root.

I also tried to do "pkg install realtek-re-kmod" and it says that the packages versions are already installed but the driver seems not to go (I also did reboot the machine). tips for this white rabbit?

[stephenw10]

@stephenw10 said in Hardware driver:

Then:

echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
echo 'if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

Did you do that part?

[Spectrum]

@stephenw10 no. now i reset to factory defaults

[Spectrum]

@stephenw10 Now I did as you said but in root@pfsense.home.arpa/root nothing happens

[stephenw10]

Try running: cat /boot/loader.conf.local

Make sure those two lines have been added to the file. Those are required to load the kernel module at boot.

[Spectrum]

@stephenw10 now i see them enabled, but pc won't connect. i have tried everything between rebooting, swapping cables, swapping re0 re1 re2 re3. all day i try. i unplugged everything and plugged the line back to pc to write

[jeonard1985]

@stephenw10

are they working? if this is the result?

[jeonard1985]

@stephenw10 said in Hardware driver:

echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
echo 'if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

i try this command nothing happen

it normal?

[patient0]

@jeonard1985 said in Hardware driver:

i try this command nothing happen

With these command you add the two lines to the /boot/loader.conf.local file. That worked; you added the two lines 6x but that won't hurt.

After that you reboot so the driver get loaded.

[stephenw10]

Yes, and then check the boot log to see the driver version when it attaches to the NIC.

[pfultz]

@Gradius can you show how you did this and where you obtained the 1998.00 driver.

[stephenw10]

198 is the version in our repo:

[2.7.2-RELEASE][admin@t70.stevew.lan]/root: pkg search realtek
realtek-re-kmod-198.00_3       Kernel driver for Realtek PCIe Ethernet Controllers