Official Realtek Driver v1.95 Binary

TheNarc

Nothing wrong with wanting to do it yourself. And I don't think that warning is anything to worry about. It was output before the compilation (the line beginning with "cc") even began. I believe that technically a re-compilation should only be necessary on major release changes of FreeBSD, which going from pfSense 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 will be (it's going from 10 to 11). So a re-compilation will be necessary for 2.4.4.

Grimson

@thenarc said in Official Realtek Driver v1.95 Binary:

I believe that technically a re-compilation should only be necessary on major release changes of FreeBSD, which going from pfSense 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 will be (it's going from 10 to 11).

No it's going from 11.1 to 11.2.

gregeeh

@thenarc said in Official Realtek Driver v1.95 Binary:

I believe that technically a re-compilation should only be necessary on major release changes of FreeBSD, which going from pfSense 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 will be (it's going from 10 to 11). So a re-compilation will be necessary for 2.4.4.

So which comes first, upgrade from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 and then re-compile and install. Or, re-compile and install and then upgrade from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4. Or does it not matter.

Sorry for all the dumb questions, just trying to understand.

gregeeh

@grimson said in Official Realtek Driver v1.95 Binary:

@thenarc said in Official Realtek Driver v1.95 Binary:

I believe that technically a re-compilation should only be necessary on major release changes of FreeBSD, which going from pfSense 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 will be (it's going from 10 to 11).

No it's going from 11.1 to 11.2.

It's going from 11.1-RELEASE-p10 to 11.2-RELEASE-p11.

TheNarc

No problem. It shouldn't really matter, it's just that if you have the driver compiled for 2.4.4 and are running 2.4.3, it will fail to load and will use the built-in driver. Likewise, if you have the driver compiled for 2.4.3 and are running 2.4.4, it will also fail and use the built-in driver. But no catastrophic failure will occur.

TheNarc

@gregeeh Thanks @Grimson, I should have checked. So in that case, possibly the driver will still work in 2.4.4. I think it's probably still best practice to re-compile, and I plan to. But I'm not familiar enough with FreeBSD development to be sure.

gregeeh

@thenarc said in Official Realtek Driver v1.95 Binary:

No problem. It shouldn't really matter, it's just that if you have the driver compiled for 2.4.4 and are running 2.4.3, it will fail to load and will use the built-in driver. Likewise, if you have the driver compiled for 2.4.3 and are running 2.4.4, it will also fail and use the built-in driver. But no catastrophic failure will occur.

Great, thanks for clearing that up.

Grimson

@gregeeh said in Official Realtek Driver v1.95 Binary:

It's going from 11.1-RELEASE-p10 to 11.2-RELEASE-p11.

Nope. 11.2 is at p3 currently, p11 doesn't even exist yet for 11.2.

breakaway

Hi TheNarc - Did you manage to compile v1.95 driver for pfSense 2.4.4 yet?

stephenw10

See: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/135850/official-realtek-driver-binary-1-95-for-2-4-4-release

Steve

fkoczan

I have made FreeBSD 12 package.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ch4Z_w7gpbrpavQ4KhPUXUzYhRyzqnye/view?usp=sharing
I dont consider it my work - I have just packed it in one archive. It is stable for me on 12.0 p3 more than
"sed -i -e 's/TAILQ_FOREACH/CK_STAILQ_FOREACH/g' if_re.c"