Pfsense & Intel card Need Help please

Hijikta

Hello everyone.
i have a problem installing pfsense on Hp pro 3500 MT (i5 3th/8Gb) and intel Quad port ET server Netword adapter
case 1 : installing Pf Without the card,everything go normal but when i add it and i start the system it stop after initiating the 1st and 2nd port (igb0 & igb1) stop at igb2 ,and i got this message :
igb2:using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors
igb2:the eeprom checksum is not valid
after that i chance this file in pfsense “/boot/loader.conf” by adding “hw.pci.enable_msix=0” & “hw.pci.enable_msi=0”
after that i got the following error :
igb2:using legacy interrupts
case 2 : installing Pf With the card,everything go normal but i can only see two interfaces “igb0 & igb1”
when i check de shell for de pci list “pciconfig -l” i got de following output
igb0@3:00.0 and igb1@3:00.1 and none2@4:00.0 none3@4:00.1

PS: on windows all interfaces work fine no probleme .

Now im asking the community for help, im realy stuck i dont know what to do next , im thinking to update the firmware of the card and adding driver to the kernal ,or just go the simple way and use windows 10 as server with hyper-v .
thanks you all.

DaddyGo

@hijikta said in Pfsense & Intel card Need Help please:

Intel Quad port ET szerver Netword adapter - igb2:the eeprom checksum is not valid

Hi,

It happens with really old (FW) Intel NICs (old edition say, v1.0), if it is Intel original equipment, you can update the FW if the OpROM is not locked (usually not) - Intel Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005790/software/manageability-products.html

But I recommend getting an I340-T4 or I350-T4, they are much better...available for pennies on eBay

++++edit: @Hijikta "after that i chance this file in pfsense “/boot/loader.conf” by adding"

such a change should always be done in a created loader.conf.local file, because it not affected by the (OS) FW update

Hijikta

Thank you i will try it .

stephenw10

You shouldn't need those loader values anyway though, they won't help with a bad firmware checksum.

Steve

DaddyGo

@hijikta said in Pfsense & Intel card Need Help please:

Thank you i will try it .

You wrote it works under Win, did you encounter the wrong FW checksum in that environment?