Tp Link network card not showing in interfaces

invictus

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 ?

akuma1x

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

kiokoman

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

stephenw10

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

Steve

jamesosw

@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

stephenw10

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