Inspur Intel x540-t2 NIC not showing as an available interface

[reecezwoos]

I cannot figure out why this NIC does not work, I can see link lights when I plug in ethernet cables, but OPNSENSE will not show them as available interfaces to assign.

[cookiemonster]

Welcome to the forum.
Please check dmesg and ifconfig. Looking for clues as these are pretty well supported NICs

[reecezwoos]

I should have mentioned, it does not show up in ifconfig, I see my current WAN interface, current LAN interface, a loopback interface, pfsync0, pflog0, and enc0 interface. From what I have read I should see IX0 and IX1 for this card. I am not currently seeing that. dmesg I do not see the card show up, but it is getting power as I see link lights from it when I plug in an ethernet cable.

Thanks

[cookiemonster]

OK but if there is nothing about the card in dmesg then the OS can not see it and therefore it can't do anything with it.
I'd suggest to try a live OS with vanilla freeBSD for a proper comparison with OPN.
A live linux distro would be helpful too but you would want to see what freeBSD sees or fails to see in this case.
Honestly if the lights are on, I expect something in dmesg.

[pfry]

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Honestly if the lights are on, I expect something in dmesg.

Perhaps try another card in the slot, or this card in another slot. I have a bad one in my old P67 board, the primary x16. Power, but no signal at all, apparently. The secondary (shared/switched) x8 works. One of these days I may take a closer look at it, just to see if I'm completely blind and missed an obvious connector issue.