NIC card not detecting cables plugged in
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Have installed pfsense, and moving into setting it up. The NIC I have is showing up in the menu pic here, however it will not show when I plug something in.
I have tried both from the NIC, to a small 8 port switch, and direct to a PC.
The NIC is an HP NC365T.
Onboard seems to be ok, and does have 2 ports built in. Could I possibly set 1 as WAN, and 1 as LAN, and try configure the card via the web interface?
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@ptchernegovski said in NIC card not detecting cables plugged in:
The NIC I have is showing up in the menu pic here, however it will not show when I plug something in
I see 3 types :
4 igb - 2 em and an eu (USB) NIC.
None of them work ?
For a typical WAN + LAN you need two interfaces.
I would remove the 'eu', though.Btw : if, for example, the 4 port igb doesn't seem to work, make sure with and other another Windows device that it actually works.
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Not sure why it has a UE, there is only the 6 ports as far as I can tell. Unless there is something inside the case.
When I got the NIC originally, I had this machine running win10. I added the card, and tested it then, and was working fine
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The fact the MAC address the ue NIC has is the same as the on-board em NICs suggests it is something on-board. It could be an IPMI device.
The auto-link detect does not work with all NICs but I'd expect those igb NICs to work fine once they are assigned.
Steve
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@ptchernegovski said in NIC card not detecting cables plugged in:
Have installed pfsense, and moving into setting it up.
Set up the WAN and LAN interface and then over the IP address you may be able to use the web interface well.
The NIC I have is showing up in the menu [pic here]
(https://ibb.co/3mky8Lf), however it will not show
when I plug something in.All is fine for you, and here is why;
Your HP NC7365T own or comes with an Intel i340 network chipset and your attached photo shows us that this NIC is recognized fine by pfSense.Full Name of your adapter (NIC)
HP NC365T uses I340-T4 E1G44HT Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter intel 82580EB PCI Express X4 1G NICOriginal Name of your NIC (HP internal)
Regulatory Modell Number HSTNS-BN58I have tried both from the NIC, to a small 8 port switch, > and direct to a PC.
Install the card
set up IP address range
go (connect) with a web browser over the web interface
configure your pfSenseThe NIC is an HP NC365T.
It is the Intel i340-T4 Chipset supported by the
igb(4) driver in pfSense.Onboard seems to be ok, and does have 2 ports built in.
Onboard NIC is then using the em(4) driver and the HP
NC 365 is using the igb(4) driver -
They are working fine, now I have managed to assign one to LAN. Good to know they won't always auto detect
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Thanks,
It is all working now. I did have to do a fresh install, as it was having issues. But worked straight after a fresh install. I am now in the web interface, and configuring it all.
