Pfsense 2.6 to 2.7 upgrade - remove Realtek driver?
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Hello All,
I updated from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0. With 2.6.0, I installed a driver for Realtek (see here).
Now that I have upgraded, should I remove the reference to the driver in /boot/loader.conf.local ? Since the OS version is different, I would think trying to use the now older driver might be a problem.
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If it aint broke, dont fix it.
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The realtek kmod driver pkg is in the 2.7 repo so it will have upgraded to that. Which is correct.
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@stephenw10 OK, so are you saying I should remove the reference in /boot/loader.conf.local to the version of the driver I copied onto the system when it was running 2.6.0?
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No, that is still required if you wish to use the kmod Realtek driver.
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For those of us desperately trying to get the Realtek driver to work with 2.6 - where can we find the 1.97 driver, which seems to be the only one which works. Sorry for threadjacking, but I'm desperate! I would switch to 2.7, but my Intel X550-T2 stopped negotiating 10GBe - dropped down to 1GBe.
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Like this: https://forum.netgate.com/post/1100295
That won't help you with an ixgbe NIC though.
Steve
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@stephenw10 OMyGosh - thank you! That was the bit of information I had been searching for all weekend. This worked! I finally have the card working on 2.6.
That won't help you with an ixgbe NIC though.
Yes of course! I was more asking if the X550-T2 issue with down negotiation had been solved in 2.7 yet. 2.5GBe stopped working for me and I could only negotiate 1GBe.Thanks again!
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@stephenw10 I'm sorry, I'm confused. I think you're saying that 2.7 comes with an install of the kmod driver. If I've hand copied the kmod driver to the Pfsense computer at some random location, and /boot/loader.conf.local is pointing to that driver in that directory, won't the OS at boot time load my hand-copied driver, not the one installed with 2.7?
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The driver that I installed in 2.6 must be version 1.98, unless the 2.7 install somehow updated it:
re0: <Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0x81300000-0x81300fff,0xa0100000-0xa0103fff at device 0.0 on pci1 re0: Using Memory Mapping! re0: Using 1 MSI-X message re0: version:1.98.00 re0: Ethernet address: 00:01:2e:70:73:d6 -
The location of the module installed by the package is the same. You should not have to change the loader values.
The version of the pkg in 2.7 is 1.98.
