Marvell 88E1512 No LED status
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I have an appliance with which uses Marvell 88E1512 for its NIC (2 copper/2SFP+)
So far ive tested the 2 copper and theyre working fine except that the NIC led are NOT lighting at all. Any soluton for this please.
Many thanks
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both 2.4.4 p3 and 2.4.5 were tried and no luck
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What NIC is it attached to?
Many years ago we saw issues with the sk and msk driver not setting up the LED registers correctly. A hacked driver was the only solution at the time though.
Steve
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Sir my laptop is using a Realtek PCIe Family. LED status on my laptop and so as with my gigabit switch are working.
Note that this issue was duplicated also in the manufacturer now.
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But what NICs are in your pfSense device? Assuming you're not using your laptop for that.
Steve
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Sir
from the specs it is 1 GbE PHY: Marvell 88E1512and theyre being detected as follows
ix2 00:18:7d:ff:48:ad (down) Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver,
ix3 00:18:7d:ff:48:ae (down) Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver,thanks
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What us that appliance? Do the LEDs show correctly when running a different OS, something Linux based?
Steve
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sir, some progress from manufacturer...LED can run now from freebsd only..but it seems with freebsd+pfsense still not yet
the device;
https://www.ieiworld.com/en/product/model.php?II=692 -
What change was required to get them working in FreeBSD?
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i dont have that info yet but surely will update this forum once done
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@ozlecz Is it done yet? Im curious
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its working now sir...their tech team has done it.
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So fixed with a firmware update from the manufacturer?
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@stephenw10 yes sir
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just a follow up on this.
what if theres a new pfsense update. Can i update mine from the GUI?
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If the fix here was in firmware, a BIOS update, then it would not affect a pfSense version upgrade.
Steve
