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      IggyB
      last edited by

      hi
      sorry haven't checked the forums in a while
      for the guy who asked for it

      http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=67950169242632494971

      that's the compiled version i use on my pfSense 2.3.2

      compiled on FreeBSD 10.3

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        krackpot
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        @IggyB:

        hi
        sorry haven't checked the forums in a while
        for the guy who asked for it

        http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=67950169242632494971

        that's the compiled version i use on my pfSense 2.3.2

        compiled on FreeBSD 10.3

        I tried following your instructions, but couldn't locate the driver on Realtek's site.

        I think it's the one listed under:

        Network Interface Controllers
        10/100/1000M Gigabit Ethernet
        PCI Express <–- Is this correct?

        http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

        Unix (Linux)
        Apply to RTL8111H(S)/RTL8118/RTL8119i as well.
        Description Version Update
        FreeBSD 7.x and 8.0
        1.93 2017/2/13 83k

        Is the above mentioned 1.93 file under Unix/FreeBSD 7.x and 8.0 what I need to get to continue with the rest of the compile steps?

        EDIT: Was able to get some help compiling the 1.93 Realtek PCI-E driver above. Seems to work without issue (so far) and I verified it was loaded.

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          Forsaked
          last edited by

          There is a new generation out with an Apollo Lake processor, but still Realtek-NICs.

          https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/ci327-nano

          pfSense: 2.4.3

          System: QOTOM-Q355G4
          CPU: Intel Core i5-5250U
          RAM: 8GB SK Hynix DDR3L-1600
          LAN: Intel I211-AT
          SSD: 256GB Lite-On

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            Rockn
            last edited by

            I hate to hijack this thread, but can anyone explain the process for getting pfSense installed on one of these boxes? It seems to get installed and sits at the f1 prompt, but goes into a reboot loop after the install. If you want to break this out into its own thread be my guest.

            Thanks

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              fullmetal297
              last edited by

              Sounds like you need to change your bios from UEFI to Legacy.

              @Rockn:

              I hate to hijack this thread, but can anyone explain the process for getting pfSense installed on one of these boxes? It seems to get installed and sits at the f1 prompt, but goes into a reboot loop after the install. If you want to break this out into its own thread be my guest.

              Thanks

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                messerchmidt
                last edited by

                does 2.3.4 have the latest realtek driver update?

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                  silvan_0172
                  last edited by

                  Any update on the onboard wifi card if that works with PFsense?
                  I am about to pull the trigger on buying on of these, but would really like to know if the onboard wifi is recognized by Pfsense.

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                    mleone87
                    last edited by

                    I have one of these since a couple of months.

                    Never ever managed to get full gigabit nat perfomance.

                    No KVM Virtio perfomance with openwrt(750 mbits)
                    No Esxi VMXNET3 performance with openwrt(650 mbits)
                    Tried opnsense on baremetal (500 or 300 mbits)
                    Never tried pfsense since their lack of support  for my pppoe connection

                    all the speeds are WAN to LAN troughput on a PPPoE FTTH connection(1000/200)

                    Same tests on a virtualized environment with G4560 CPU and intel nics are all full gigabit speed

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                      TonyVI
                      last edited by

                      @silvan_0172:

                      Any update on the onboard wifi card if that works with PFsense?
                      I am about to pull the trigger on buying on of these, but would really like to know if the onboard wifi is recognized by Pfsense.

                      Installed latest version 2.3.4 yesterday and wireless card is not recognized.

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                        IggyB
                        last edited by

                        Installed latest version 2.3.4 yesterday and wireless card is not recognized.

                        Add these two lines in /boot/loader.conf

                        legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
                        legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1

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                          IggyB
                          last edited by

                          There is a new driver on Realtek's site v.193 with included patches. Work's on 2.3.4

                          If you want to compile your own on FreeBSD 10.3

                          1. update the driver source code:
                                              Remove existing if_re.c from /usr/src/sys/dev/re or rename to if_re.c.org
                              Copy the new 1.93 dirver source code( if_re.c and if_rereg.h) into /usr/src/sys/dev/re
                                              Remove existing Makefile from /usr/src/sys/modules/re or rename to Makefile.org
                              Copy the new 1.93 Makefile into /usr/src/sys/modules/re

                          2. build the driver:

                          cd /usr/src/sys/modules/re

                          make clean

                          make

                          3. Upload the new if_re.ko from /usr/src/sys/modules/re to your pfSense box in /boot/kernel
                                                  # cd /boot/kernel
                                                  # chmod 0555 if_re.ko
                          '                      # chown root:wheel if_re.ko
                                                    edit /boot/loader.conf in pfSense with vi
                                                    add line add line if_re_load="YES"
                                                  # reboot

                          Don't forget to rename old .ko module if you want to keep it or remove it

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                            tekken4
                            last edited by

                            Hi @cinnamon

                            are you able to compile the latest driver?  not got freebsd.

                            thanks very much

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                              IggyB
                              last edited by

                              What pfsense ver are you using?

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                                ermax
                                last edited by

                                I have the CI327 and was also having throughput and timeout problems. I was able to resolve my problems by compiling 1.93 in a VM running FreeBSD 11. I copied the driver over to my pfSense box and no more timeouts. I disabled all the tuning options that I had previously applied and it still works fine. Before I went this route I couldn't get anything over 50MBit/Sec. Now I am maxing out my 100Mb/100Mb connection.

                                The process was very straight forward too. Make sure when installing FreeBSD 11 for your build environment that you select the option to install the source tree. Then do a "pkg install curl" and then follow these directions:

                                On Build Server:
                                curl -o /tmp/rtlv193.tgz http://12244.wpc.azureedge.net/8012244/drivers/rtdrivers/cn/nic/0006-rtl_bsd_drv_v193.tgz
                                tar -xf /tmp/rtlv193.tgz -C /tmp/
                                
                                cp /tmp/rtl_bsd_drv_v193/if_re* /usr/src/sys/dev/re/
                                cp /tmp/rtl_bsd_drv_v193/Makefile /usr/src/sys/modules/re/
                                cd /usr/src/sys/modules/re/
                                make
                                
                                scp /usr/src/sys/modules/re/if_re.ko root@<pfsenseip>:/boot/kernel/
                                
                                On pfSense:
                                cd /boot/kernel
                                chmod 0555 if_re.ko
                                chown root:wheel if_re.ko
                                
                                Add this line to /boot/loader.conf.local:
                                if_re_load="YES"
                                
                                reboot pfsense
                                
                                After reboot verify that it loaded the new driver with:
                                dmesg | grep re0</pfsenseip>
                                

                                Edit: One other problem I had on the CI327 was boot time took forever due to it trying to access the SD card reader. I was able to resolve this by hitting ESC at the boot loader (from the install media) and then typing:

                                
                                set hint.sdhci_pci.0.disabled=1
                                set hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled=1
                                boot
                                

                                Then at the end of the install it prompts you about going to a shell to make additional changes. Say yes and then add these lines to /boot/loader.conf.local:

                                
                                hint.sdhci_pci.0.disabled=1
                                hint.sdhci_pci.1.disabled=1
                                
                                

                                This was all done on pfSense 2.4 nightly.

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                                  cristi_gh
                                  last edited by

                                  @cinnamon:

                                  Installed latest version 2.3.4 yesterday and wireless card is not recognized.

                                  Add these two lines in /boot/loader.conf

                                  legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1
                                  legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1

                                  Just added this and still doesn't work.

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                                    cristi_gh
                                    last edited by

                                    @cinnamon:

                                    There is a new driver on Realtek's site v.193 with included patches. Work's on 2.3.4

                                    If you want to compile your own on FreeBSD 10.3

                                    1. update the driver source code:
                                                        Remove existing if_re.c from /usr/src/sys/dev/re or rename to if_re.c.org
                                        Copy the new 1.93 dirver source code( if_re.c and if_rereg.h) into /usr/src/sys/dev/re
                                                        Remove existing Makefile from /usr/src/sys/modules/re or rename to Makefile.org
                                        Copy the new 1.93 Makefile into /usr/src/sys/modules/re

                                    2. build the driver:

                                    cd /usr/src/sys/modules/re

                                    make clean

                                    make

                                    3. Upload the new if_re.ko from /usr/src/sys/modules/re to your pfSense box in /boot/kernel
                                                            # cd /boot/kernel
                                                            # chmod 0555 if_re.ko
                                    '                      # chown root:wheel if_re.ko
                                                              edit /boot/loader.conf in pfSense with vi
                                                              add line add line if_re_load="YES"
                                                            # reboot

                                    Don't forget to rename old .ko module if you want to keep it or remove it

                                    I don't quite understand why each should compile the driver, since we're all going to be using it on the same hardware.
                                    Do you happen to have the 1.93 driver already compiled? Attaching it here would be of great help for many strugling to get the wan stable. I know I am…
                                    Just add .txt to the end of the file and attach it here.
                                    Thanks!
                                    p.s. I did try to compile it in a virtual freebsd 11.0 and the resulting module is not loaded by pfsense.

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                                      cristi_gh
                                      last edited by

                                      @cinnamon:

                                      hi
                                      sorry haven't checked the forums in a while
                                      for the guy who asked for it

                                      http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=67950169242632494971

                                      that's the compiled version i use on my pfSense 2.3.2

                                      compiled on FreeBSD 10.3

                                      This seems to have worked. I'll attach it here in case the link goes down.
                                      Also I'd love v1.93. As I understand the one I attached is v1.92

                                      if_re.ko.txt

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                                        pf3000
                                        last edited by

                                        This is v1.93 that I tried briefly on 2.4 beta (freebsd 11) before finding out that I couldn't receive IPv6 from the WAN.

                                        if_re.zip

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                                          morgejgmail
                                          last edited by

                                          @cinnamon:

                                          Hey sorry, just got my main desktop up and running. I had some trouble after draining my watercooling loop, had to go out and buy a new block. then my pumps reservour cracked. etc.. lol

                                          1. Install Kernel FreeBSD 10.3 with kernel sources.
                                          1. Get kernel  driver 1.91 from realtek site. You don't need the patch for driver, only if you're using FreeBSD 11+
                                          2. Modify /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC and delete line "device re" - so if_re no longer be included in kernel itself - module will be build anyway.
                                          3. Edit /boot/loader.conf adding line if_re_load="YES", so external module will be loaded.
                                          4. Go to /usr/src and run "make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC && make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC"
                                          5. Reboot with new kernel. System should boot with open-source driver as module. kldstat will show if_re in list of modules.
                                          6. Put Realtek's if_re.c and if_rereg.h into /usr/src/sys/dev/re
                                          7. Build driver (cd /usr/src/sys/modules/re && make clean && make)
                                          8. Backup /boot/kernel/if_re.ko, then cp /usr/src/sys/modules/re/if_re.ko /boot/kernel/if_re.ko && chmod 0555 /boot/kernel/if_re.ko && chown root:wheel /boot/kernel/if_re.ko
                                          9. Reboot

                                          Now i wasn't sure how to upload files to internet using lynx or fetch so i installed xorg server and kde on vm FreeBSD. This took a while and i had some issues with timeouts etc.
                                          Basicly i uploaded new compiled if_re.ko to some small file hosting sites, used a tinyurl to shorten it with direct link

                                          SSH into pfSense and used fetch to download it into /boot/kernel/
                                          chmod 0555 /boot/kernel/if_re.ko && chown root:wheel /boot/kernel/if_re.ko

                                          edit /boot/loader.conf in pfSense. Can do through web browser or through ssh client with vi
                                          add line if_re_load="YES"

                                          That should be it. Reboot and your 1.92 should be loaded. If you want to unload it just put # infront of if_re_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
                                          If you're having issues compiling or uploading to web/usb stick i will be happy to upload it for you or send you somehow a already compiled one

                                          I downloaded the compiled module from a few posts down the thread and installed with these instructions.

                                          In my limited testing, this HAS fixed my issues with the CI323 nic's when downloading large files across my FIOS 300/300 service.

                                          THANK YOU!

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                                            ermax
                                            last edited by

                                            1.93 works fine on 2.4-RC. I have IPv6 working on mine too. Throughput still isn't consistent. It maxes out my 100/100 fiber but it seems to randomly hang on speed tests here and there.

                                            I posted directions on compiling and installing along with all the loader options that are needed in this post here:
                                            https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=103841.msg739039#msg739039

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