FreeBSD expert for troubleshooting - NanoPi R5S and R6S

[Alfa1234]

Hello Guys,
We're trying to install OPNsense on NanoPi R5S and R6S https://personalbsd.org/.
FreeBSD is already running on R5S but there is a problem with 2.5G Ethernet. Is there any FreeBSD expert who could help us troubleshooting to understand the problem?
This is out telegram chat: https://t.me/PersonalBSD
Thank you

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Tried the FreeBSD-ARM and FreeBSD-Net mailing lists?

[Alfa1234]

The FreeBSD comunity tell me to write on the OPNsense forum. I have not tried mailing lists.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Which FreeBSD community? The official channels for ongoing development are the mailing lists.

https://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists/

[Alfa1234]

This community: https://forums.freebsd.org/

[franco]

Perhaps https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=32460.0

I'm a little surprised the FreeBSD community redirects driver questions to us, but I suppose the information given to them was little to none to diagnose as is the case here.


Cheers,
Franco

[Alfa1234]

I sed to them that we have a problem with 2.5G Ethernet.
They reply to me: “Which part of OPNSense (a derivative) is not supported here is unclear? We cannot and do not support any of the FreeBSD derivatives. We support FreeBSD only.”
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/opnsense-nanopi-r5s-and-r6s-issues.88029/

[franco]

> This code simply cannot work on aarch64 if we have a null MAC address.

Sounds like a FreeBSD ports issue with net/realtek-re-kmod to me.

I think the no-support policy is reasonable, but shoving responsibility away pointing to the policy when it doesn't apply to the underlying issue is questionable.

It's best to raise a ticket for the port in https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ and cut out the middleman.


Cheers,
Franco

[Patrick M. Hausen]

And/or take it to the freebsd-net and freebsd-arm mailing lists, if you want to discuss things in addition to the bugzilla issue.

[franco]

As irony will have it I'm probably responsible for surfacing that bug by enabling build in non-Intel/AMD hardware in the port, but I don't have any such hardware to test it with and the fix was supposed to be straight forward in an entirely different area of the code.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/6a4e552e40762


Cheers,
Franco

[Alfa1234]

I want to thank you for your time! Now it is clear what the problem is. Franco is not your fault relax! I will now continue by opening a report as you indicated.

[Cabletwister]

Is there any progress? It would be really amazing to get OPNsense on R5S running.

[none]

If need testing, just say so. As long as I can help, count on me.

[none]

Hi,

is there anyone with the kernel config and any other files for building FreeBSD for NanoPI R5S? Is there for opnsense?

thanks,