Cardbus Linksys PCM1000 [SOLVED with VLAN and a switch]

iorx

Hello!

Need to bring the WAN-side up to gigabit speed. I'm running pfsense on a Thinkpad T43 (1871). It works like a charm with the built in card and a 10/100 Cardbus on the WAN side.

LAN: bge0: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x4101 (pciconf: bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x05771014 chip=0x167d14e4 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00)
WAN: (pciconf: rl0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00)

Now I've got a Linksys PCM1000 100/1000 Cardbus card which I would like to use for the WAN.

But, it is not recognized as I can see it.

Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: device_attach: re0 attach returned 6
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: re0: MII without any phy!
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: re0: PHY read failed
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: re0: PHY write failed
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: re0: PHY write failed
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: re0: Chip rev. 0x10000000
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: re0: <realtek 8169="" 8169s="" 8169sb(l)="" 8110s="" 8110sb(l)="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0x90302000-0x903021ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
Nov 24 02:38:33 kernel: cardbus0: Expecting link target, got 0xff

Doesn't look too promising does it? Any suggestions?

Any chanses if going to bsd 8 (2.0 beta)?

Currently running "FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0 Fri Nov 6 22:34 (1.2.3-RC3 built on Fri Nov 6 23:53:27 EST 2009)"

brgs,
/iorx</realtek>

iorx

Talking to myself here…

The problem was solved by scrapping the idea to have two network cards in that poor Thinkpad :-)

A switch Procurve 1810-24G av VLAN was the answer to all my needs.

For the curious:

Defined two VLAN:
[LAN] VLAN10 port: 1-22 Untagged, 23 excluded, 24 Tagged
[WAN] VLAN20 port: 23 untagged, 24 Tagged

Hardware:
Netgear CG3200 Cable Modem WAN-line (gigabit, NAT=off) into port 23 (100/10Mbit; Service provider is ComHem, Sweden, Stockholm)
Thinkpad T43 (gigabit internal nic, bge0) into port 24

fpSense NIC-config; VLAN:
[LAN] VLAN10; vlan0
[WAN] VLAN20; vlan1

Latest speed test with above config gives me: ~102 Mbit downstream and ~11 Mbit upstream.

Conclusion of above is as I see it that you shouldn't bother with multiple NICs in a PC. Go for one good gigabit NIC and leave the rest to the switch!

Brgs,
iorx