Hardware driver

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

pfultz

@stephenw10 is there any space between any thing in the two echo lines.
as well after this is done what command do you give to do I proper reboot?

pfultz

@stephenw10 Is this the right driver to download?
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-1100.00.pkg
If I do from 13 it gives an error if I go with 14 it loads.

pfultz

@stephenw10 Do I need to take my Intel NIC card off the motherboard to get this to work/ load. And then put the NIC card back so I have incoming and outgoing? The Realtek is the NIC the motherboard comes with.

stephenw10

@pfultz said in Hardware driver:

@stephenw10 Is this the right driver to download?
https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-1100.00.pkg

No that won't load into the pfSense kernel. You must use the pkg from our repo. Or compile your own driver.

@pfultz said in Hardware driver:

Do I need to take my Intel NIC card off the motherboard to get this to work

No. The Realtek driver doesn't care about Intel NICs, that would make no difference.

@pfultz said in Hardware driver:

after this is done what command do you give to do I proper reboot?

Just reboot normally from the console menu or GUI (Diag > Reboot).

pfultz

@stephenw10
So where is the link to the drivers from your repo?
Are you referring to this?
pkg search realtek realtek-re-kmod-198.00_3
don't I need to "pkg-static add" of 198.00_3 first
Or I run this command to start it? "pkg install realtek-re-kmod"

How do I compile my own driver?

pfultz

@pfultz
I did
pkg install realtek_re_kmod-198.00_3
Says its not there
pkg install realtek_re_kmod
installs but in the end it says already installed.

Sorry I am such a new bee. Just want to load the drivers. It said it loaded the 1100.00
Do I need to default and start over? Then do the above.

patient0

@pfultz Are you running pfSense 2.7.2 CE? If yes then the 198 is part of pfSense. If not then we gotta know what version of pfSense you're running.

stephenw10

If you installed the 1100.00 freebsd pkg already then first uninstall it: pkg remove realtek-re-kmod

Then install the pkg from the default CE repo using: pkg install realtek-re-kmod

That is assuming you did not add the FreeBSD pkg repos manually at any time?

pfultz

@patient0
2.7.2 which I believe is the only one I can download for amd.

pfultz

@stephenw10
Alright all of this worked.
However now when I try to log into pf.
It doesn't see the ip of the pf machine I set up.
I can see the rig in my network with the ip I gave it.
I can ping to the machine and from the machine with no issue.
I can switch back to the intel nic. From my browser nothing.
Even though before this I could log into pf online with the intel card.

stephenw10

Can you SSH into it?

What do you see at the console?

pfultz

@stephenw10

I ran everything on auto through option 2
I am logged in online.
Can I run the setup like this?
modem to router to pfsense to switch to 4 devices?
Right now I am modem to router to switch to pfsense
Thank you for your help. You have brought to this point.
I am logged in using the motherboard realtek nic.

stephenw10

Yes you can put pfSense directly connected to an upstream router.

Ideally I would want to see: Modem --- pfSense --- switch ---- < devices >
I.e. only one router and that's pfSense. Doing so avoids double NAT. However that may not be possible depending on what you're using your upstream router for.