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Tp Link network card not showing in interfaces

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    invictus
    last edited by Oct 5, 2020, 6:52 PM

    Hello guys so I bought this: TP-Link TG-3468. It's an gigabit network card with Realtek chipset.
    I have tested it on the same hardware but with windows installed and it worked.
    I mean that I have connected the router to my pc and I had a ethernet connection with the ethernet port on this card.
    After that, I have installed pfSense on the same computer and when I'm prompted to select the interfaces, the only one that I see is the one from motherboard.
    I have tried switching pci e slot with all 3 from the motherboard but the result is the same.
    Does anyone have any ideea ?

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      akuma1x
      last edited by akuma1x Oct 5, 2020, 7:09 PM Oct 5, 2020, 7:06 PM

      Might not be compatible with pfsense. Windows is an operating system with TONS of device drivers, just like pfsense is an operating system built on top of FreeBSD.

      https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/hardware.html

      That card is shown as compatible on the list, however only the v2 version. What version do you have?

      Jeff

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        kiokoman LAYER 8
        last edited by kiokoman Oct 5, 2020, 7:46 PM Oct 5, 2020, 7:43 PM

        the correct link for 2.4.5-p1 is
        https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.3R/hardware.html

        anyway if it's based on re(4) try with the following driver:

        https://forum.netgate.com/post/934753
        https://forum.netgate.com/post/935026

        pkg add https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-v196.04_2.txz
        

        Edit /boot/loader.conf.local using "Diagnostics" > "Edit File":

        if_re_load="YES"
        if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"
        

        Reboot your firewall
        Run dmesg using "Diagnostics" > "Command Prompt" and search for your interfaces in the output to verify the version

        if it's not a v2 it will not work though

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by Oct 6, 2020, 11:11 AM

          Grab the output of pciconf -lv so we can see that card actually is.

          Steve

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            jamesosw @stephenw10
            last edited by Dec 11, 2020, 3:54 PM

            @stephenw10 I'm also experiencing the same problem. Here's the output from my hardware

            none4@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816110ec rev=0x15 hdr=0x00
            vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
            class = network
            subclass = ethernet

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @jamesosw
              last edited by Dec 11, 2020, 4:14 PM

              Support for that card was only added to the base re(4) driver 2 months ago so it will not be recognised in 2.4.5. It will be in 2.5 though.

              https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-src/commit/7cb3cd513d45f72ab62ebe1981bad8ee5d4e41b5#diff-3b42e7c6c8c0a7f01442c7cf9955008a8c138f8eae3f03a7b1275bd381c79671

              Steve

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