Atheros/Attansic L2 FastEthernet support
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I gave up on using P5GC-MX with pfSense. I'll try other motherboards.
Thank you all for your help.
Flavio
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I gave up on using P5GC-MX with pfSense. I'll try other motherboards.
Thank you all for your help.
Flavio
Hello to all! Recently I came across the same problem … The solution is simple. First, download the driver http://www.springdaemons.com/stas/if_ae-1214569185.tar.bz2 unzip into a Freebsd box 7.0 and compile. Copy the module if_ae.ko to your pfsense box 1.2.2 /boot/modules and insert the following line to /boot/loader.conf: if_ae_LOAD = "YES". Ready, module loaded and ready for use.
Sorry for my bad English.
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Your english is really not worse than mine :D
Really thanks for your help, I had already give up on that mission.
Does it works on FreeBSD 7.1 (for pfSense 1.2.3 or greater)? If yes, on a VM install with FreeBSD 7.1, which option should I select during install to speed up the preparation process?
Hoping not to look an ingrate, can you put some instructions on the process (like a mini-howto or just the basic steps)? I assume my little knowledge of compiling kernel related things in FreeBSD and I have to test it really fast.
I'll try it anyway, even with no instructions. Maybe I can do it myself without much problems ;)
Flavio
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Flávio, you does not need to compile kernel. Unzip the archive of link in a folder and follows these steps:
1- cd "/folder_of _file" make
2- cp if_ae.ko /boot/modules
3- vi /boot/loader.conf "if_ae_load=" YES"
4- It restarts the machine.I did not test with version 1.2.3 of the Pfsense, but it must function since that you compile with Freebsd 7.1.
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Any thing, sends me an email chaper_ibest.com.br
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@cmb:
ale(4) is the one that was added.
Why not ae(4)?
I read:
"In FreeBSD 7.1-stable, I can see the following related to atheros:
root@kg-vm# apropos atheros
ae(4) - Attansic/Atheros L2 FastEthernet controller driver
age(4) - Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet driver
ale(4) - Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
ath(4) - Atheros IEEE 802.11 wireless network driver
ath_hal(4) - Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)" -
@cmb:
This has been added, though it'll be a couple days til new snapshots are available as we're moving the last repo to git.
Is it possible to add ae(4) too ?
In
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/errata.html
I read:
[20090105] The Release Notes for 7.1-RELEASE should have mentioned changes that the ae(4) driver has been added to provide support for the Attansic/Atheros L2 FastEthernet controllers. This driver is not enabled in GENERIC kernels for this release.
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Yes, adding ae(4) would be very useful for me too.
Is it possible for pfsense devs to enable it? -
I think they already enabled it (ae(4)) because since yesterday, when I installed last 1.2.3 (from 1.2.2), I see a new card (ae0) :)
Thanks staff :) -
Yes, ae(4) was also added at some point in the past couple months.