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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: cchorrell on June 07, 2018, 05:03:03 am

Title: RTL8153 Help.
Post by: cchorrell on June 07, 2018, 05:03:03 am

Hello all,

I have ran OPNsense as a VM for some time now but due to changes I need to make internally I decided to repurpose an old portable.  The portable has one built-in NIC that was properly identified and is working fine, but my USB RTL8153 has been identified as ue0 and it appears it cannot identify the media type.  I believe this to be the cause of the card acting as a 10Mbit NIC.  After some research I believe the correct driver to be ure, the FreeBSD man page states this is for the RTL8152, but the same driver in the OpenBSD man shows it is for both the RTL8152/RTL8153.  Both man pages shows the author of the driver to be the same person.

My issue right now is that after several days of internet research I am at a lose as how best to make OPNsense use the ure driver for this NIC.  The farthest I have gotten is to use 'kldload if_ure' in the shell and I would appreciate any advise or resources that I could be pointed to so I can remedy this.

Thank you all for your time.

Title: Re: RTL8153 Help.
Post by: cchorrell on June 07, 2018, 08:11:00 am

Update on the above.  I now have the 'ure' driver loading as a kernel module on boot.  Now on to figure out how to force the hardware to use the driver, but so far I have not found any resources online to help, or at least ones that I understand.