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16.7 Legacy Series / Re: etherswitch/arswitch support

« on: October 30, 2016, 06:14:48 pm »

Hi Franco,

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer!

I installed a vanilla FreeBSD-11.0-release on the board, then recompiled a kernel, making sure etherswitch/miiproxy/iccbus were included. To no avail: the hardware still is not recognized by the new kernel. Seems the Atheros switch is hidden by the bios as a VIA device and the kernel cannot do anything out of it. Not sure there is a way I could convince the kernel to explicitly load a driver for an unknown device, and it is probably not recommended anyway.

So forget it: I will not invest more time into that board. No need to activate said modules in the default opnsense kernel, at least not for me :-) I have no idea whether these switches are popular or not. You can certainly find them in smaller TP-Link devices but they are not within your hardware targets I believe.

Thanks a lot for pointing out the build instructions! For some reason I had completely overlooked this page. Will certainly come in handy at some point.

Thanks again for all the efforts, very much appreciated
Cheers

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16.7 Legacy Series / etherswitch/arswitch support

« on: October 29, 2016, 10:48:53 pm »

Hi,
I have a board sporting two Intel NICs. em0 works fine but em1 is hidden behind an arswitch device, which is supported by FreeBSD since release 10.something. Unfortunately it seems etherswitch/arswitch support is not compiled into the default kernel shipped with opnsense. Is there any way I can compile these extra modules separately and add them to the board? Failing that, is there a sanctioned way to recompile a custom kernel to add support for those?
Thanks for helping!