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    Solarflare SFN5122F Dual Port 10GbE PCI-E Driver is not loaded by default in 2.4

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      dbtsai
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      Hello, I bought a very cheap Solarflare SFN5122F on eBay for my home 10GbE solution. I checked that FreeBSD supports it long time ago, and in```
      /boot/kernel/sfxge.ko

      
      However, the driver is not automatically loaded like other ethernet cards, and I have to run```
      kldload sfxge
      ```to load the driver.
      
      Is it possible to recognize it in pfSense, and load it automatically? I believe this 10GbE budget card has been used by many people here, and it will be really useful to have it working by default.
      
      Edited, even having```
      sfxge_load="YES"
      ```in```
      /boot/loader.conf
      ```doesn't automatically load for unknown reason.
      
      Thanks.
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        cmpufxr
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        you have to copy the driver to the /boot/modules directory

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