Moschip 7830 precompiled driver

tattoomees

sorry forgot its 32 bit driver

atamido

Would you provide the make and model of the specific hardware you're using?

Also, what speed is your internet connection, and what speeds are you seeing through the adapter?

atamido

I'm a Windows user, so I'm just making a note of how I copied this precompiled driver onto the system and got it to load.

First I formatted a USB stick to FAT16 and copied if_mos.ko to it.
I plugged it into the pfsense system and ran:
mkdir /mnt/stick
mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/stick
cp /mnt/stick/if_mos.ko /boot/kernel
kldload if_mos.ko
vi /boot/loader.conf
i

Add in:
if_mos_load="YES"
to the end of the file.
Hit Esc. Type :w and hit enter, then type :q and hit enter.
quit
And then reboot the system.

atamido

This driver didn't have the traffic shaper enabled for it (as it wasn't included), but Bug #1850 specifically mentions that altq should work in this driver.

Editing the "/etc/inc/interfaces.php" file, change line 3585 from:

			"ste", "stge", "txp", "udav", "ural", "vge", "vr", "wi", "xl",

to

			"ste", "stge", "txp", "udav", "ue", "ural", "vge", "vr", "wi", "xl",

wallabybob

@atamido:

vi /boot/loader.conf
i

It would be better to add the line to /boot/loader.conf.local since /boot/loader.conf is not guaranteed to survive a firmware upgrade but /boot/loader.conf.local is supposed to survive a firmware upgrade.

atamido

Thanks, I've made that change. :)

The ironic bit is that the USB NIC has been fine so far, while the onboard NIC using the "bge" driver has been unstable (appears to be a known issue starting with BSD 7.x).

atamido

I suppose I should mention that I picked up this adapter:

http://www.bestofferbuy.com/eumark-usb-10100m-rj45-ethernet-network-adapter-dongle-moschip-mcs7830-p-26370.html

It cost $8.60 and shipping from Hong Kong to the US was free (although it did take a couple of weeks). I'm not really sure how they make a profit, possibly some poor fisherman loads up their boat and sails across the big pond?

mchacka

i tried to install the moschip 7830,
i copied the if_mos.ko to /boot/kernel
and added the line to the loader.conf
kldstat output:
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 8 0xc0400000 1178ad8 kernel
2 1 0xc1579000 4d04 if_mos.ko

after restart the driver is loaded , but the system don't recognise the usb adapter.
can anyone help me?

wallabybob

What version of pfSense are you using?

Please provide the output of pfSense shell command```
usbconfig dump_device_desc

mchacka

hi
2.0.1-RELEASE pfSense

usbconfig dump_device_desc

ugen0.2: <usb 10="" 2.0="" 100m="" ethernet="" adaptor="" vendor="" 0x0fe6="">at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON

bLength = 0x0012
bDescriptorType = 0x0001
bcdUSB = 0x0110
bDeviceClass = 0x0000
bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
idVendor = 0x0fe6
idProduct = 0x9700
bcdDevice = 0x0101
iManufacturer = 0x0000 <no string="">iProduct = 0x0002 <usb 10="" 2.0="" 100m="" ethernet="" adaptor="">iSerialNumber = 0x0000 <no string="">bNumConfigurations = 0x0001

thx 4 help</no></usb></no></usb>

wallabybob

According to the USB ids file on Ubuntu 12.04 (idVendor = 0x0fe6, idProduct = 0x9700) indicates a Kontron DM9601. Based on the same file I would expect a MOSCHIP 7830 to have (idVendor = 0x9710, idProduct = 0x7830).

I downloaded the MCS7830 datasheet from http://www.datasheetarchive.com/MCS7830-datasheet.html The datasheet suggests the MCS7830 is capable of USB high speed (480Mbps) operation but your device is connecting at USB full speed (12Mbps).

Hence I expect you don't really have a MosChip 7830.

Maybe you could plug this device into a Linux system and see what driver (if any) claims it.