Cant get link on nic C2000 SoC I354 Quad GbE controller

dino_71

Hi,
Im using this motherboard: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SAM-2550F.cfm

I can get the first nic (WAN) to function properly but all other three in this quadcontroller are not working.
I dont even get link on any of the other three even though they are enabled in pfsense. I can see them in the admin gui and assign them but no link.

Im running the latest version of pfsense:
2.1.2-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Thu Apr 10 05:42:18 EDT 2014
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p15

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

stephenw10

How are you connecting to them?
Are you seeing no link in pfSense or no link LEDs?
Try connecting via a switch if you're not already or try setting the speed/duplex manually.

If you re-assign the WAN to a different NIC what is the result?

That same NIC controller is being used with no issues in the Supermicro C2758 box so I would not expect this to be a hardware/pfSense issue.

Edit: The board appears to have a jumper for enabling on-board NICs, check that.

Steve

gonesilent

No driver in freebsd 8.3 for the NIC. NICs work in pfsense 2.2 alpha based on freebsd 10.

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=70400.msg402623#msg402623

jasonlitka

@gonesilent:

No driver in freebsd 8.3 for the NIC. NICs work in pfsense 2.2 alpha based on freebsd 10.

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=70400.msg402623#msg402623

This is wrong. The i354 NICs work fine in 2.1.1 and newer.

Guest

Because we back ported the driver from 10. :)