Problems with network card

javieramadi

Good afternoon.
I reviewed several topics on the compatibility of network cards with pfsense , being user of Linux seems too rare for an OS not take plates Realtek chipset understand that this is a UNIX and others.
My question is whether someone compiled or used any technique to recognize network cards .
Something that catches my attention is that for example take a USB to Ethernet MAC and one for windows and not a network card several years (3 or 4 without exaggeration) ago.
Thank you very much for your support.

doktornotor

Uhm. MAC address spoofing will NOT ever get your unsupported NIC recognized.

javieramadi

When i said MAC its the Apple Mac USB to ethernet. So this is very rare because one network card normal it doesnt support by pfsense.

One note. If i disconnect the cable from the network card, pfsense show this situation in the console, but he dont recognize when y try to assign the interfaces.

doktornotor

@javieramadi:

When i said MAC its the Apple Mac USB to ethernet. So this is very rare because one network card normal it doesnt support by pfsense.

javieramadi

If it was a test I did . It was a surprise for me to work and I recognize pfsense.
I cant understand that a network card does not recognize by pfsense. Its two years , is not new .

javieramadi

Apple usb adapter 1277 is the model and the network card some chipset realtek normal..

doktornotor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

tim.mcmanus

Are you trying to run pfSense on a Mac?

If so the issue isn't with the NIC support, it's probably there. The issue is that the USB driver required to communicate with the Apple USB-to-Ethernet adapter doesn't exist on pfSense. You would need to write that driver, and I believe the USB-to-Ethernet adapter is proprietary, so developing a driver for FreeBSD would be considerable task.

stephenw10

I imagine you're saying why isn't my Apple USB-Ethernet adapter working? And I imagine you have the A1277 adapter?
The answer is that it should be. It's listed here:
@https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/10.1.0/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs?revision=274417&view=markup:

product APPLE ETHERNET 0x1402 Ethernet A1277

It should be supported by the axe(4) driver.

This thread shows it recognised.

Since you are saying it is not recognised it must be using some other chipset in the version you have. Connect the adapter then at the command line run:

 usbconfig dump_device_desc

Paste the output here.

Steve