Added NIC not seen
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Hello,
I added an Intel PWLA8494GT Pro/1000 GT Quad Port NIC and it seems that the OS only sees two of the ports. It calls them em0 and em1.
I thought I might try installing the drivers, but can't seem to find any for FreeBSD.
Is it "safe" to try the Linux drivers???
Thanks for any advice!!
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Is it "safe" to try the Linux drivers???
No, absolutely will NOT work. And define "not seen".
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Thanks for the advice.
By missing, I mean when I do an ifconfig from the shell, I only see two of the 4 ports.
The output of ifconfig is below…em0 and em1 are the two new nics.
I'm wondering if this NIC is fully supported by FreeBSD itself.
[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.dswhat.us]/root: ifconfig bge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate>ether 00:16:35:6b:37:ad inet6 fe80::216:35ff:fe6b:37ad%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active bge1: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate>ether 00:16:35:6b:37:ac inet6 fe80::216:35ff:fe6b:37ac%bge1 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:11:25:cb:e8:1e inet6 fe80::211:25ff:fecb:e81e%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active em1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:11:25:cb:e8:1f inet6 fe80::211:25ff:fecb:e81f%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active dc0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=80008 <vlan_mtu,linkstate>ether 00:04:5a:69:86:08 inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe69:8608%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33184 pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on syncok: 1 enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384 options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>ovpns1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=80000 <linkstate>inet6 fe80::216:35ff:fe6b:37ad%ovpns1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa inet 192.168.5.1 --> 192.168.5.2 netmask 0xffffff00 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>Opened by PID 67592 [2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.dswhat.us]/root:</performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></promisc></performnud,auto_linklocal></vlan_mtu,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate></broadcast,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>
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Go to Interfaces - Assign. Pick up the interface. Assign.
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If it's not seen by the OS, it's won't show in the assign interfaces.
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This NIC is well known and should be supported by FreeBSD/pfSense. You must try different OS liveUSB/DVD to make sure that you hardware is OK and working fine.
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Excellent idea. Thanks for all the advice!! 8)