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      pglover19 @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 said in Watchguard Firebox M440:

      Ok, so this works. But it is very verbose! Like it prints out a page of status info every second at the console. 🙄
      0_1539553890564_if_igb.ko.txt
      That is the replacement kernel module.

      Copy it to /boot/modules in the m440 and rename it if_igb.ko.

      Then add the following line to /boot/loader.conf.local:
      if_igb_load="yes"

      Then reboot.

      Try to capture the console output covering the boot process. That should show it attempting to connect to the i354 NICs and why it's failing. You might have to disconnect the console once that happens because as I said it will continue to spam the console every second.

      Steve

      Ok.. Will try it now.. Give me 30 minutes..

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        pglover19 @stephenw10
        last edited by

        @stephenw10 said in Watchguard Firebox M440:

        Ok, so this works. But it is very verbose! Like it prints out a page of status info every second at the console. 🙄
        0_1539553890564_if_igb.ko.txt
        That is the replacement kernel module.

        Copy it to /boot/modules in the m440 and rename it if_igb.ko.

        Then add the following line to /boot/loader.conf.local:
        if_igb_load="yes"

        Then reboot.

        Try to capture the console output covering the boot process. That should show it attempting to connect to the i354 NICs and why it's failing. You might have to disconnect the console once that happens because as I said it will continue to spam the console every second.

        Steve

        I will be using WINSCP to copy the file to the M440 system...

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Yeah, that's fine.

          You don't really need to quote my whole post when you reply to me. There's only you and me here. 😉
          Doing so makes the thread waaaay longer.

          Steve

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            pglover19
            last edited by pglover19

            Added the module and updated the config file ... I don’t see anything verbosing on the console..

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Hmm, you see it failing to load that, maybe an error at the beginning on the boot?

              The module is built for pfSense 2.4.4 (FreeBSD 11.2). It won't load in 2.3.5.

              Steve

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                pglover19
                last edited by

                I noticed this line in the boot log...

                KDB: debugger backends: ddb.../if_igb.ko': input/output errors=[0x8+0x197280+0x8

                Attached is the boot log....

                0_1539557073898_if_igb Boot Log.txt

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                  pglover19
                  last edited by

                  Here is what I done so far based on your recommendation....

                  0_1539557545790_Capture.PNG

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by stephenw10

                    Hmm, only two possibilities I can see. I actually tested on a 2.4.5 snapshot but that's still build on FreeBSD 11.2.

                    Perhaps the file was borked somewhere by uploading/downloading via the forum:

                    [2.4.5-DEVELOPMENT][root@8860.stevew.lan]/root: sha256 /boot/modules/if_igb.ko
SHA256 (/boot/modules/if_igb.ko) = d309d1b253ddf4a4444ab2c4fa16c71b2c880e7439f236a35395444edeb0db28

                    I don't see that KDB line so I'm guessing the file was broken somehow. Checking sha256 sum should show that.

                    Steve

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                      pglover19
                      last edited by

                      Will check now...

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        Looks OK here when I downloaded it from the forum though:

                        steve@steve-MMLP7AP-00 ~/Downloads $ sha256sum 1539553891669-if_igb.ko.txt 
d309d1b253ddf4a4444ab2c4fa16c71b2c880e7439f236a35395444edeb0db28  1539553891669-if_igb.ko.txt

                        Hmm

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                          pglover19
                          last edited by

                          Getting a different checksum.. Here are the results..

                          0_1539568345850_SHA256 Results.txt

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                            pglover19
                            last edited by pglover19

                            To download, I right click on the file and select "Save Target As" to my Windows 10 machine. I rename the file and then use WINSCP to move the file to pfSense.

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                              pglover19
                              last edited by

                              I downloaded the sha256sum program for Windows and I'm getting the same checksum on my Windows machine.. Hmm.

                              E:\Watchguard M440>sha256sum.exe if_igb.ko
                              d309d1b253ddf4a4444ab2c4fa16c71b2c880e7439f236a35395444edeb0db28 *if_igb.ko

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                                pglover19
                                last edited by pglover19

                                Ok.. Here is what is going on..

                                I used WINSCP to upload the file to pfSense. I ran the sha256 command on the file in pfSense and I get checksum "d309d1b253ddf4a4444ab2c4fa16c71b2c880e7439f236a35395444edeb0db28" which is what you get.

                                I reboot pfSense and for some reason the checksum of the file changes. I ran the sha256 command on the file in pfSense after the reboot and I get checksum "09baa21ec3e7f90e397be6fec895a80f9e5c2b70641eae57c61318ae173b1edc".

                                What is going on? Maybe the permissions on the file is incorrect..

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                                  pglover19
                                  last edited by pglover19

                                  Couple things that may be wrong.

                                  1. Should we have a uppercase "YES" in the following line in the config file.
                                    if_igb_load="YES"

                                  2. The file permission on the .ko file (chmod 644) may not be correct. I noticed that another .ko in the same directory has different permissions (execute permission - chmod 555) .

                                  0_1539599045756_Capture2.PNG

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                                    pglover19
                                    last edited by

                                    Finally go it working.. I did the 2 things in the previous post.

                                    Here are the results...

                                    0_1539600366081_igb Results.txt

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      Hmm, well that's.... weird.

                                      I didn't set any special permissions on the file, it loaded and ran fine anyway:

                                      [2.4.5-DEVELOPMENT][root@8860.stevew.lan]/boot/modules: sha256 if_igb.ko 
SHA256 (if_igb.ko) = d309d1b253ddf4a4444ab2c4fa16c71b2c880e7439f236a35395444edeb0db28
[2.4.5-DEVELOPMENT][root@8860.stevew.lan]/boot/modules: ls -la 
total 660
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     512 Oct 14 22:25 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 root  wheel    1536 Oct 15 11:09 ..
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  105504 Sep  5 00:35 bwi_v3_ucode.ko
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  496128 Oct 14 22:25 if_igb.ko
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      88 Oct  7 14:12 linker.hints

                                      That's after rebooting, the file is unchanged here.

                                      I renamed the file after I uploaded it to that box. Shouldn't make any difference though.

                                      Steve

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                                        pglover19
                                        last edited by pglover19

                                        Is that the results you were looking for? Please advise. Should I now delete the .ko file?

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          Ah, OK that is working but that txt file just shows the stuff it throws out every second.

                                          We need the log showing it booting and the driver trying and failing to attach.

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                                            pglover19
                                            last edited by

                                            It seems to be stuck on throwing the stuff on the console and does not enter the boot cycle.. I will try again.

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