Realtek 8111
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So after countless hours trying to get my router to work, it turned out that the PCI Adapter that I bought is supposedly "incompatible" with pfSense.
I'm not entirely sure what this means, as the adapter is registered and showing. Can someone help me out here?
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What version of pfSense? This is for 2.2.4:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/hardware.html
In says The re(4) driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL816xS, RTL811xS, RTL8168, RTL810xE and RTL8111 based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters including:
So you should be good I figure.
You must be doing something wrong. When you install it does it show up as an available NIC to select? You sure you have your NICs identified properly (which is which?)
From my system. Not exactly sure which chipset it really is:
[2.2.4-RELEASE][pfSense]/root: grep re0 /var/log/dmesg.boot
re0: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" g="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff,0xfdff8000-0xfdffbfff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci2
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: Chip rev. 0x28000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00100000
miibus0: <mii bus="">on re0
re0: Ethernet address: 00:30:18:ad:7e:4f</mii></realtek> -
What version of pfSense? This is for 2.2.4:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/hardware.html
In says The re(4) driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL816xS, RTL811xS, RTL8168, RTL810xE and RTL8111 based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters including:
So you should be good I figure.
You must be doing something wrong. When you install it does it show up as an available NIC to select? You sure you have your NICs identified properly (which is which?)
From my system. Not exactly sure which chipset it really is:
[2.2.4-RELEASE][pfSense]/root: grep re0 /var/log/dmesg.boot
re0: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" g="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff,0xfdff8000-0xfdffbfff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci2
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: Chip rev. 0x28000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00100000
miibus0: <mii bus="">on re0
re0: Ethernet address: 00:30:18:ad:7e:4f</mii></realtek>Hi,
Sorry for the late reply I've been trying other options.
Running on pfSense 2.2.4.
Yeah when I install it it shows it up as a functioning adapter and everything, it's just not letting anything go through it and yes they are identified properly. (alc0 is my Motherboard Eth, re0 is my Realtek Eth).I think that there is something definitely wrong because whenever I plug my alc0 into my router via LAN, it works fine. But whenever I plug my re0 into my router via LAN, I can't get access to it.
Setting it up so re0 is WAN plugged into my router, the DHCP-side of it won't retrieve an IP address from the router so there's something not right and it's really bugging me.
Also,
when plugged in via alc0, it shows the Device Name as "pfSense" on the router.
When plugged in via re0, it shows the Device Name as "–" which means that one wasn't sent out (re0 being the Realtek)The only thing which looks weird is the MAC address of the adapter, which is 00:00:00:00:00:03
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Dump from root:
[2.2.4-RELEASE][root@pfSense.localdomain]/etc: grep re0 /var/log/dmesg.boot re0: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" g="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff,0xfdff8000-0xfdffbfff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 re0: Using 1 MSI-X message re0: Chip rev. 0x2c800000 re0: MAC rev. 0x00100000 miibus0: <mii bus="">on re0 re0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:03</mii></realtek> -
The only thing which looks weird is the MAC address of the adapter, which is 00:00:00:00:00:03
Definitely invalid.
Guess Realtek drivers still suck.
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The only thing which looks weird is the MAC address of the adapter, which is 00:00:00:00:00:03
Definitely invalid.
Guess Realtek drivers still suck.
It makes no sense though because mine and your's adapters are the exact same.
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There's a reason my realtek NIC is relegated to use as my backup DSL WAN. Sorry. I have nothing else.
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There's a reason my realtek NIC is relegated to use as my backup DSL WAN. Sorry. I have nothing else.
I managed to get it working myself.
I was able to assign it a MAC Address randomly using ifconfig and set the card to Promiscuous. Upon boot the Promiscuous setting reset so I made a script on boot that turned it back on. All up and running now!
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Whatever floats your boat. I'd buy a new NIC.
