PfSense can't detect Intel Quad Port

matrocs

Hello.

I'm installing my first pfSense 1.2.3 in a Dell PowerEdge 310 with an Intel Quad Port PCIe card.
The problem is that when booting, pfSense is not able to detected this Intel Quad Port card.

I have read a similar topic http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26592.msg140323.html#msg140323 but following these steps I always have the same error:

link_elf : symbol SYSCTL_ADD_QUAD undefined
kldload: can't load if_igb.ko: No such file or directory

Any idea?

Thanks

skear

I believe pfsense 1.2.3 is based on FreeBSD 7.2, have you checked to see if the card is listed as being supported? It's possible pfSense version 2.0 might have support for it since it's based on the newer FreeBSD 8.0

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/hardware.html#ETHERNET
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html#ETHERNET

jimp

Definitely try 2.0 on there. It's actually based on 8.1, not 8.0, and at the moment we have even pulled down the Intel (em/igb/etc) driver from HEAD so it's even newer.

matrocs

Thank you for your help.

Unfortunately I have to use version 1.2.3.

Do you think that installing 2.0 in another computer and coping the .ko could work.

Thanks for your support.

tacfit

I can confirm that 2.0 definitely works with the card.

wallabybob

@matrocs:

Unfortunately I have to use version 1.2.3.

Do you think that installing 2.0 in another computer and coping the .ko could work.

No because pfSense 1.2.3 and 2.0 are based on completely different versions of FreeBSD.

jimp

You could try this one, I think it was a newer igb compiled on 7.2 for a customer:

fetch -o /boot/modules/if_igb.ko http://pingle.org/files/if_igb.ko
echo 'if_igb_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

I would still recommend 2.0 though at this stage.

stephenw10

What's the current situation with the igb/em driver?
Didn't it get updated and then pulled a while back?
I did a quick search but turned up nothing enlightening.

Steve

jimp

At the moment it seems to be pretty stable.

Some problems that were thought the be em-related were due to some other patches that have since been backed out for mbuf manipulation.

jwelter99

And I can second that confirmation!

@tacfit:

I can confirm that 2.0 definitely works with the card.

matrocs

I should buy new network cards… Could anyone recommends a Quad Port PCI Express card compatible with pfsense 1.2.3?

Thank you for you support.

stephenw10

Did you try the updated driver Jim posted?

Steve

matrocs

Yes I tried but is not working.

I'm going to buy a NIC with chipset 82571 and try it.