Confirmed NICS

[rlentz2023]

I'm new to OPNSense and I'm currently running into an issue. Is there a list of NICs that are confirmed to work without an issue? I purchased a Syba Dual 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express PCI-E Network Controller Card and for some reason it's not seeing it. I think I'm gonna be stuck with a card that won't work. :( Any help is appreciated.

[bartjsmit]

OPNsense is based on FreeBSD so support is dictated by the kernel: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/hardware/

No guarantees but a better indicator than most

[meyergru]

The Syba adapter is base on Realtek RTL8125, so you have to install the os-realtek-re plugin, because FreeBSD does not support that chipset out of the box.

[vpx]

If you don't have any connectivity on your OPNsense you can manually install the Realtek vendor drivers with the os-realtek-re.pkg plugin from https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/23.7/latest/Latest/

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pkg install os-realtek-re

Here is also a tutorial but with the driver directly from Realtek.

https://cyberdean.fr/blog/realtek-driver-free-bsd/