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      crm
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      I am having problems installing to a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DQ6 P45 motherboard. I chose this board because it has 4 onboard ethernet ports and runs super cool in a small chassis. pfSense is only seeing one NIC per controller card rather than all 4. I have read in other forumns that there have been updates to the FreeBSD RTL drivers. Does anybody know how I can update the FreeBSD RTL drivers on my running pfSense machine?

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        wallabybob
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        If you haven't already done so please try pfSense 1.2.3 - see http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=377 and note download link in the bottom of the page.

        If you have tried pfSense 1.2.3 please opst the startup output. The startup output can be displayed by the dmesg command.

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          crm
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          I tried 1.2.2, 1.2.3, and 2. 2 is the only one that actually sees 4 separate interfaces, but then the interfaces are not usable and pfsense only sees 2 of them when you configure the network. I just ordered 4 NIC INTEL|PWLA8391GTLBLK 1000M OEM from newegg. Hopefully they will work better. Really frustrating! It looks like I'm not the only one having problems with this controller http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-…msg102047.html.

          If I get time I'll throw in an old network card and see if I can get the boot logs to post.

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            wallabybob
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            Do you see this sort of thing in the startup output of 1.2.3?

            re0: <realtek 8168="" 8168b="" 8168c="" 8168cp="" 8168d="" 8111b="" 8111c="" 8111cp="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xf7eff000-0xf7efffff,0xf7ee0000-0xf7eeffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4
            re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
            re0: MAC rev. 0x00400000
            re0: PHY write failed
            re0: PHY write failed
            re0: MII without any phy!
            device_attach: re0 attach returned 6</realtek>

            If so, see my remarks in
            http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,14994.0.html

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