Can't assign NIC [Aquantia Corp. AQC107]

Roy360 · Jul 14, 2020, 9:18 AM

2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
built on Tue Jun 02 17:51:17 EDT 2020
FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE

Been using pfsense for years now, with the two onboard 1G NICs that are on my motherboard.
I now want to add this new NIC to handle my LAN traffic while I use the newly freed up NIC to handle IPCamera traffic.

pciconf -lvb:

none2@pci0:1:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x872e1043 chip=0xd1071d6a rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Aquantia Corp.'
    device     = 'AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet Controller [AQtion]'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
    bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf7840000, size 65536, enabled
    bar   [18] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf7850000, size 4096, enabled
    bar   [20] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf7400000, size 4194304, enabled

The NIC is detected, but I'm not sure why I can't assign it.

EDIT:
Maybe I need the driver? https://driverdownloads.aquantia.com/

I don't see anything in the documentation regarding driver installation. Apparently I need to build pfsense from scratch?

Gertjan · Jul 14, 2020, 9:18 AM

@Roy360 said in Can't assign NIC [Aquantia Corp. AQC107]:

Apparently I need to build pfsense from scratch?

Noop.
The driver is loaded by the kernel, FreeBSD 11.3 so a "FreeBSD 11.3 system' with compile and link tools will do.

It's probably a lot easier to check if a NIC is supported before you get your hands on one.

stephenw10 · Jul 14, 2020, 9:56 AM

Also see:
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/tree/devel/net/aquantia-atlantic-kmod

and:
https://github.com/Aquantia/aqtion-freebsd

But we do not build that port. It's labelled 'developer preview' which should tell you something. As far as I know it's untested in pfSense.

Steve

Roy360 · Jul 14, 2020, 4:31 PM

@Gertjan
I normally just buy Intel NICs, but this NIC came bundled with my ASUS motherboard.

I upgraded to 2.5 development in hopes it might have the driver included, but it didn't, and I couldn't find any detailed steps on how to add drivers so I'm just going to buy a chinese Intel NIC off eBay.

In 1-2 months I'll have my security cameras up and running

Rico · Jul 14, 2020, 7:50 PM

Seems like the driver can't get compiled against FreeBSD 11.3
FreeBSD 12.1 is working fine, but I'm not able to upload files to the forum anymore. Should work with pfSense 2.5.x at least.

-Rico

Rico · Jul 15, 2020, 5:00 PM

Here you go: https://fil.email/i9PmzTNH
Should work for 2.5.0 and could work for 2.4.5 (don't think so).

Disclaimer:
Use at your own risk, take a backup first. I'd not put that in business production, should be fine for home use or playing around in a lab environment.

-Rico

Rico · Jul 15, 2020, 5:20 PM

How the Installation should work (dry run / not tested, I don't own this NIC):
Unzip the file and place if_atlantic.ko into the /boot/kernel/ folder.
Change permissions via console or SSH: chmod 555 /boot/kernel/if_atlantic.ko
Edit /boot/loader.conf.local and add to the end of the file: if_atlantic_load="YES"
Reboot pfSense and see what happens. ;-)

-Rico

stephenw10 · Jul 15, 2020, 5:23 PM

Just to test it you can also run at the CLI: kldload if_atlantic.ko

That way if is fails and causes a panic it will still reboot again without loading it.

Steve

Rico · Jul 15, 2020, 5:24 PM

Thanks for this hint Steve.

-Rico

stephenw10 · Jul 15, 2020, 10:51 PM

Guess how I'm aware of that trap and what a PITA it is escaping it.

Roy360 · Jul 15, 2020, 11:25 PM

@Rico said in Can't assign NIC [Aquantia Corp. AQC107]:

Here you go: https://fil.email/i9PmzTNH
Should work for 2.5.0 and could work for 2.4.5 (don't think so).

Disclaimer:
Use at your own risk, take a backup first. I'd not put that in business production, should be fine for home use or playing around in a lab environment.

-Rico

@stephenw10 said in Can't assign NIC [Aquantia Corp. AQC107]:

Just to test it you can also run at the CLI: kldload if_atlantic.ko

That way if is fails and causes a panic it will still reboot again without loading it.

Steve

Works like a charm and only took a few seconds....
Thanks guys!

Going to spend a few days testing before I make the change permanent.

Rico · Jul 16, 2020, 9:39 AM

Glad you have it working.
Did you also try with 2.4.5-p1 ?

-Rico

Rico · Jul 16, 2020, 5:09 PM

@stephenw10
As THE hardware expert, any idea why make goes downhill in 11.3? ;-)

root@freebsd11:~/freebsd-drv-v0.0.2 # make
machine -> /usr/src/sys/amd64/include
x86 -> /usr/src/sys/x86/include
awk -f /usr/src/sys/tools/makeobjops.awk /usr/src/sys/kern/device_if.m -h
awk -f /usr/src/sys/tools/makeobjops.awk /usr/src/sys/kern/bus_if.m -h
awk -f /usr/src/sys/tools/makeobjops.awk /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pci_if.m -h
awk -f /usr/src/sys/tools/makeobjops.awk /usr/src/sys/net/ifdi_if.m -h
:> opt_rss.h
Warning: Object directory not changed from original /root/freebsd-drv-v0.0.2
cc -O2 -pipe -DIFLIB -ferror-limit=1  -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc  -I/usr/include -I. -I/usr/src/sys -fno-common  -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer   -MD  -MF.depend.aq_main.o -MTaq_main.o -mcmodel=kernel -mno-red-zone -mno-mmx -mno-sse -msoft-float  -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding -fwrapv -fstack-protector -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -D__printf__=__freebsd_kprintf__ -Wmissing-include-dirs -fdiagnostics-show-option -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-error-tautological-compare -Wno-error-empty-body -Wno-error-parentheses-equality -Wno-error-unused-function -Wno-error-pointer-sign -Wno-error-shift-negative-value -Wno-error-address-of-packed-member  -mno-aes -mno-avx  -std=iso9899:1999 -c aq_main.c -o aq_main.o
aq_main.c:260:3: error: field designator 'isc_tso_maxsize' does not refer to any field in type 'struct if_shared_ctx'; did you mean 'isc_tx_maxsize'?
        .isc_tso_maxsize = HW_ATL_B0_TSO_SIZE,
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         isc_tx_maxsize
/usr/include/net/iflib.h:236:13: note: 'isc_tx_maxsize' declared here
        bus_size_t isc_tx_maxsize;
                   ^
fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]
2 errors generated.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /root/freebsd-drv-v0.0.2
root@freebsd11:~/freebsd-drv-v0.0.2 #

Also tried 11.2 with the same Error. 12.1 is just fine.
I don't have any personal use for this driver, but like to understand what's going wrong there and maybe can give some more help for Roy. :-)

-Rico

stephenw10 · Jul 16, 2020, 8:02 PM

Ha, I think you've promoted me.

I would guess it's because that is a driver built on iflib and some part of that is missing. A number of drivers are using that now but only in FreeBSD 12 AFAIK. But that is a guess, my coding skilz are.... not great!

Rico · Jul 19, 2020, 7:55 AM

I was able to build driver version 0.0.5 for FreeBSD 11.3 (pfSense 2.4.5-p1):
https://fil.email/Y9QJQFqv

And here is 0.0.5 for FreeBSD 12.1 (pfSense 2.5.0):
https://fil.email/RdjhicBA

-Rico

AZweimiller · Dec 11, 2020, 3:45 AM

@rico said in Can't assign NIC [Aquantia Corp. AQC107]:

I was able to build driver version 0.0.5 for FreeBSD 11.3 (pfSense 2.4.5-p1):
https://fil.email/Y9QJQFqv

And here is 0.0.5 for FreeBSD 12.1 (pfSense 2.5.0):
https://fil.email/RdjhicBA

-Rico

@Rico Could I trouble you to repost these files? They are expired and it would be a great help. Thanks!

Rico · Dec 11, 2020, 5:46 PM

Yeah sure.
FreeBSD 11.3 (pfSense 2.4.5-p1): if_atlantic0.0.5_freebsd11.3.zip
FreeBSD 12.1 (pfSense 2.5.0): if_atlantic0.0.5_freebsd12.1.zip
They should stay permanent now because I can upload zip files to the Forum again.

-Rico

AZweimiller · Dec 12, 2020, 3:58 AM

@rico Thanks, worked perfectly.

daplumber · Mar 30, 2021, 12:19 AM

@rico URGENT Any chance you could compile for FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE for 2.5.0-RELEASE? The version for 12.1 above crashes it, unsurprisingly...

Thanks in advance!

stephenw10 · Mar 30, 2021, 5:39 PM

You should compile it yourself or use the kmod port in FreeBSD 12.2.

It's unlikely there is any issue here but downloading and installing random binaries from the forum is really not a great habit to get into.

Steve