Added NIC not seen

x2desmit

Hello,

I added an Intel PWLA8494GT Pro/1000 GT Quad Port NIC and it seems that the OS only sees two of the ports. It calls them em0 and em1.

I thought I might try installing the drivers, but can't seem to find any for FreeBSD.

Is it "safe" to try the Linux drivers???

Thanks for any advice!!

doktornotor

@x2desmit:

Is it "safe" to try the Linux drivers???

No, absolutely will NOT work. And define "not seen".

x2desmit

Thanks for the advice.

By missing, I mean when I do an ifconfig from the shell, I only see two of the 4 ports.

The output of ifconfig is below…em0 and em1 are the two new nics.

I'm wondering if this NIC is fully supported by FreeBSD itself.

[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.dswhat.us]/root: ifconfig
bge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=8009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate>ether 00:16:35:6b:37:ad
	inet6 fe80::216:35ff:fe6b:37ad%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
	status: active
bge1: flags=8802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=8009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate>ether 00:16:35:6b:37:ac
	inet6 fe80::216:35ff:fe6b:37ac%bge1 prefixlen 64 tentative scopeid 0x2 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect
em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:11:25:cb:e8:1e
	inet6 fe80::211:25ff:fecb:e81e%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
	status: active
em1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:11:25:cb:e8:1f
	inet6 fe80::211:25ff:fecb:e81f%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
	status: active
dc0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=80008 <vlan_mtu,linkstate>ether 00:04:5a:69:86:08
	inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe69:8608%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
	status: no carrier
pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33184
pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
	syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on
	syncok: 1
enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>ovpns1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=80000 <linkstate>inet6 fe80::216:35ff:fe6b:37ad%ovpns1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa 
	inet 192.168.5.1 --> 192.168.5.2 netmask 0xffffff00 
	nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>Opened by PID 67592
[2.3.2-RELEASE][root@pfsense.dswhat.us]/root:</performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></promisc></performnud,auto_linklocal></vlan_mtu,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate></broadcast,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

doktornotor

Go to Interfaces - Assign. Pick up the interface. Assign.

x2desmit

If it's not seen by the OS, it's won't show in the assign interfaces.

w0w

This NIC is well known and should be supported by FreeBSD/pfSense. You must try different OS liveUSB/DVD to make sure that you hardware is OK and working fine.

x2desmit

Excellent idea. Thanks for all the advice!! 8)