Realtek gbe family controller not detected

[Marinoz]

Newbie here. While setting up opnsense it couldn't detect the Wan port although I have two ports at my pc. One is a tp link t3468 v4 and the other is realtek gbe family controller. I've read everywhere that realtek drivers such so should I download other drivers for opnsense to recognize the ethernet adapter?

[bartjsmit]

OPNsense is based on FreeBSD which doesn't have drivers as such. It maintains a list of hardware supported by the kernel: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/hardware/

There are considerably fewer issues with Intel cards. See if you can score a 82571 or similar but check your motherboard for an available slot, as some are pcie x4.

Bart...

[meyergru]

Or, I you want to try anyway. install os-realtek-re from System->Firmware->Plugins.

[Marinoz]

OPNsense is based on FreeBSD which doesn't have drivers as such. It maintains a list of hardware supported by the kernel: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/hardware/

There are considerably fewer issues with Intel cards. See if you can score a 82571 or similar but check your motherboard for an available slot, as some are pcie x4.

Bart...

Firstly I have pcie only slots and secondly I can't even set opnsense up if I don't have two cards I think so how do I access the settings ?

Or, I you want to try anyway. install os-realtek-re from System->Firmware->Plugins.

[Marinoz]

OPNsense is based on FreeBSD which doesn't have drivers as such. It maintains a list of hardware supported by the kernel: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/hardware/

There are considerably fewer issues with Intel cards. See if you can score a 82571 or similar but check your motherboard for an available slot, as some are pcie x4.

Bart...

Or, I you want to try anyway. install os-realtek-re from System->Firmware->Plugins.

Firstly I have pcie only slots and secondly I can't even set opnsense up if I don't have two cards I think so how do I access the settings ?

Or, I you want to try anyway. install os-realtek-re from System->Firmware->Plugins.

Messed up with the quotes in my previous message.so I've tried to find if the drivers are supported and apparently they aren't and I have a free pcie slot AND how do I access settings ?

[meyergru]

You only need one NIC as LAN in order to have network access and open up a web GUI.

If you only have console access, you could theoretically install os-realtek-re from cli as well, but you would need internet access to download the plugin, so you would probably need to set a route to your existing router and also configure DNS resolution via LAN.

[Marinoz]

You only need one NIC as LAN in order to have network access and open up a web GUI.

If you only have console access, you could theoretically install os-realtek-re from cli as well, but you would need internet access to download the plugin, so you would probably need to set a route to your existing router and also configure DNS resolution via LAN.

Something else too I followed a tutorial from yt but he used two nics. So after finishing the installation he suggested and clicking the exit and reboot button it took me back to the installer and I couldn't sign in as root although I made a root acc. What's going on?

[meyergru]

Did you remove the installer ISO?

[Marinoz]

Newbie here. While setting up opnsense it couldn't detect the Wan port although I have two ports at my pc. One is a tp link t3468 v4 and the other is realtek gbe family controller. I've read everywhere that realtek drivers such so should I download other drivers for opnsense to recognize the ethernet adapter?

Look I'm a noob and the gui of opnsense may look like that but I didn't unplug the iso. Also I use windows 10 pro no oicense(😂) hyper v

[Marinoz]

I found out that I couldn't save the root password for some reason after reboot and exit but I made it finally. About the cards I updated the software through idnows update. Both cards have the same drivers but only one is recognized. How?

[meyergru]

Probably one or the other has a different PCI ID. You can list these via CLI: "pciconf -lv".

Drivers usually handle only their respective PCI IDs. If the missing NIC is the TP-Link, I would guess that TP-Link's TG-3468 v4 has changed that ID, because there have been reports that v4 does not support Linux here, and the TP-Link support site only has Windows drivers for V4 (V1 has drivers for more OSes).

[Marinoz]

Probably one or the other has a different PCI ID. You can list these via CLI: "pciconf -lv".

Drivers usually handle only their respective PCI IDs. If the missing NIC is the TP-Link, I would guess that TP-Link's TG-3468 v4 has changed that ID, because there have been reports that v4 does not support Linux here, and the TP-Link support site only has Windows drivers for V4 (V1 has drivers for more OSes).

So after running this command what do I do?

[Marinoz]

Wait how do I even run commands 😭

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You enable the SSH service. System > Settings > Administration.

You use the SSH client for your desktop of choice to log in.

[Marinoz]

You enable the SSH service. System > Settings > Administration.

You use the SSH client for your desktop of choice to log in.

Thank you. Also I may sound stupid that's because I'm a newbie and I don't know fluently English. BTW why does it keep on going not recognizing one of the nics? What's going on? They both have the same drivers. I even deleted them from control panel and ran sfc sannow but still.