NIC driver installation

[blomus]

Hi community,

I try to setup an Intel NUC with OPNsense. As the NUC has only 1 NIC onboard, I have to use an USB NIC as secondary. The problem is that the built in drivers are not that stable and the NIC is disconnecting all the time. I went to various blogs and it seems to be a well know problem. I tested now 3 different models with different chipsets. I have now one with Linux drivers on a CD and I want to install them on OPNsense over the shell. Is that possible and how I do that- as I'm not a Linux user at all.

Thanks for any hint.

[domg]

Hi blomus,

OPNsense use FreeBSD and linux drivers are not compatible. There is ndis but USB device is not supported.
btw what is your wifi hardware ?

[blomus]

I gave up on this. I tried several USB NIC's but they are all unstable. Therefore, I tried to Install a Hypervisor on the Intel NUC, Hyper-V 2016 TP5 and Hyper-V 2012 R2. Unfortunately the NUC is not certified for Windows Server, so I had the same issue, no driver which works for the onboard NIC. The only option I would have is to install Windows 10 on the NUC and Hyper-V with the OPNSense FW VM. But due the overhead Windows 10 produces because it is a user OS, I stopped with this device.

I use now as before a virtual machine hosted on a Windows Server 2016 TP5 which runs perfectly. The goal of transferring the VM to the NUC was only that I can do maintenance on my hypervisor without downtime of the firewall VM.

By the way, I do not use the OPNSense FW as WIFI hardware. I have a separate ASUS router which is only WIFI AP.

[weust]

Getting it's NIC to work for Windows isn't too difficult. I did that with 2012 R2.
Give me a PM so I won't forget to look up the link.

[weust]

Check link. Should get you going just fine.