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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: guest18070 on May 03, 2018, 09:59:47 pm

Title: RTL8139C NIC Firebox X700
Post by: guest18070 on May 03, 2018, 09:59:47 pm

I recently picked up a Watchguard Firebox X700 cheap off eBay and following various guides strewn across the internet have managed to get opnsense loaded on a HDD and booted up.

Now the problem...

Opnsense does not seem to have a driver for the RTL8139C NIC in the firebox, or at least that's what it is telling me, I get the following:

pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 9.0 (no driver attached)
pci2: <network, ethernet> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)

And so on for the 6 NICs, I then can't see them to assign LAN and WAN interfaces. I have seen plenty of people using the X700 with pfsense with no problems.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: RTL8139C NIC Firebox X700
Post by: peacemaker76 on October 04, 2018, 08:17:17 pm

Same here   :'(

Title: Re: RTL8139C NIC Firebox X700
Post by: franco on October 17, 2018, 05:21:57 pm

Does FreeBSD 11 support it? I'm asking because we use the Realtek vendor driver so we support whatever they support and I'm not sure this syncs up 100% with FreeBSD.


Cheers,
Franco

Title: Re: RTL8139C NIC Firebox X700
Post by: peacemaker76 on October 17, 2018, 07:15:44 pm

Hi Franco,

thanks for your hint, i'll try this. Is it possible to use the memstick-variant on a sd-card and boot from there? Or do I have to do something else?

Regards

Title: Re: RTL8139C NIC Firebox X700
Post by: franco on October 17, 2018, 10:20:47 pm

The install memstick has a live mode. That should be enough to grab dmesg and see what ifconfig reports. :)


Cheers,
Franco