FreeBSD Intel driver issue

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I've been reading in the 16.7 forum how the original Intel driver is solving some problems for people who have been using the standard FreeBSD driver.  Would the "pkg install intel-em-kmod" fix also install on an A10 QC running 16.1.20?

[franco]

The issues we've seen have been popping up since FreeBSD 10.3 (actually two distinct issues we know of), which was new for 16.7. The general rule of thumb for software is "there are at least zero issues" with 10.2 so using the Intel driver on 16.1.20 could be an option to try out.

We don't build packages for 16.1.20 anymore and FreeBSD ports/packages never had an intel-em-kmod package (we're hopefully going to change that), so your only option is to build them on OPNsense itself.

# pkg install git
# cd /usr
# git clone https://github.com/opnsense/plugins
# git clone https://github.com/opnsense/ports
# git clone https://github.com/opnsense/src
# cd /usr/src && git checkout stable/16.1
# cd /usr/ports/opnsense/intel-em-kmod && make install
# cd /usr/plugins/net/intel-em && make install

(from the top of my head, I apologise for typos)


Cheers,
Franco

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Thanks for the explanation.  I was hoping to try a minimal change to see if it affected my setup but, curious as I am to see what building the driver on 16.1 would do, I think straying off into uncharted waters as you describe isn't likely to help me or anybody else.  Guess I'll be updating to 16.7.x when I can and using the package you're providing for everybody.  Thanks again.