Support for "Speed Dragon Multimedia Limited" NICs dropped?

[sjjh]

Hi!

I did an upgrade from 21.7 to 22.1. We recognized, that some time (minutes to hours) after a restart of the OPNsense box, it lost its internet connection. Further investigation showed, that it got back to stable working after switching the gateway to another NIC. The problem seems to be related to a Speed Dragon Multimedia Limited NIC (which worked flawless under 21.7). Prior to upgrading I was reading through the release notes and only recognized information about changes regarding the Realtek NIC.
Can someone enlighten me?
Would the Realtek driver be of any help?

Thanks in advance!
Simon

[cookiemonster]

Maybe. The drivers are for the NIC chip, not necessarily the OEM vendor. Best thing is to try to identify the "actual" nic ie. the chip it is using. I'd start by looking at dmesg for some identifier that you can google for.

[va176thunderbolt]

I believe it's a Realtek rtl8111 chipset. I had one a while ago and remember the name.

[sjjh]

As already suspected, I can now confirm, that the Speed Dragon NIC used in our OPNsense actually identifies as a realtek card via dmesg:

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re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xf7800000-0xf7800fff,0xf0500000-0xf0503fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3
Thanks again for your support and hints to find the root cause!

BTW, sorry for the late reply, dmesg gets flooded by ACPI error messages shown below, thus the NIC information got lost. I did a BIOS update, as this was supposed to help, but unfortunately the state didn't change.

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Firmware Error (ACPI): Could not resolve symbol [\134_SB.PCI0.LPCB.HEC.ECAV], AE_NOT_FOUND (20201113/psargs-503)
ACPI Error: Aborting method \134_TZ.TZ01._TMP due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20201113/psparse-689)


edit: relevant links regarding acpi error message
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202585
https://www.bsdforen.de/threads/var-log-messages-firmware-error-acpi-could-not-resolve-symbol.36394/ (German)