TU2-ETG USB Network adapter (ax88178) issue

[dimokrat]

Hi All!

I have bought Trendnet TU2-ETG USB Network adapter (ax88178 chipset) to use with pfSense (1.2.3) .

The system has recognized it automatically:

axe0: flags=108802 <broadcast,simplex,multicast,needsgiant>metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:50:b6:04:cd:5e
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none <hw-loopback>)
        status: no carrier</hw-loopback></broadcast,simplex,multicast,needsgiant>

But the link is DOWN both with cross and ordinary network cords, switches and other LAN adapters.

It successfully works under Windows XP - but not with pfSense.

May I change something to make it work?

Please, save me!!! :)

[cmb]

Sounds like a FreeBSD driver problem. Try 1.2.3-RC3, newer FreeBSD version might work.

[dimokrat]

Thanks, I'm already using 1.2.3 RC3, latest build..

Should I try to install FreeBSD 8 RC3 to test with it?

[dotdash]

Odd that is shows hw-loopback. Have you tried manually setting the media and mediaopts from the shell?

[dimokrat]

I've tried to manually set media type with the same negative result.

Yesterday I've tried with FreeBSD 8.0 RC3, and it works fine…

So, the problem is related to 7 FreeBSD version.

Unfortunately, current pfSense release is also based on 7.2 .. And alpha release is still alpha...