Installed Realtek driver does not load on boot

[DominikHoffmann]

Re: Trying to find out which Realtek drivers are being used?

I am running CE 2.7.2 on a NUC PC with Realtek NICs. These are the instructions I am running in the shell:

fetch -v https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/snapshots/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-1100.00_1.pkg
pkg install -f -y realtek-re-kmod-1100.00_1.pkg

I also put this into /boot/loader.conf.local:

if_re_load="YES"
if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"

The command kldstat shows

[2.7.2-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.home.arpa]/root: kldstat
Id Refs Address                Size Name
 1   10 0xffffffff80200000  339ce08 kernel
 3    1 0xffffffff83b76000    1e2b0 opensolaris.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff84710000     2220 cpuctl.ko
 5    1 0xffffffff84713000     3240 ichsmb.ko
 6    1 0xffffffff84717000     2178 smbus.ko

That driver was evidently not loaded. Why not?

[stephenw10]

Because that's a kernel module compiled for opnsense.

Remove that: pkg delete realtek-re-kmod

Then install the pkg from the 2.7.2 repo: pkg install realtek-re-kmod

Steve

[DominikHoffmann]

@stephenw10 said in Installed Realtek driver does not load on boot:

Remove that: pkg delete realtek-re-kmod

Then install the pkg from the 2.7.2 repo: pkg install realtek-re-kmod

That worked. Thanks very much, Stephen!

[pixeluk]

I just wanted to add my thanks too – I was trying to install the same latest Realtek drivers to support a generic dual port 2.5G NIC (uses 8125 chipset) but got stuck with the version mismatch error preventing the driver to load.

I should have just come to this Forum first!

Phil