Realtek 2.5 Nic. Im a complete NOOB.

[Sniperstorm]

I just purchased a mini pc with 2 2.5 ports to learn and run OPNsense.  It seems this pc has Realtek ports on it and I cannot get OPNSense to find the ports. I am a complete noob to all off this and am lost. Would anyone be willing to help me get this going or point me in the right direction.  Thank you for your help. 

[bimbar]

There is a realtek driver package you can install via the web interface.

[Greg_E]

How does a person install that plugin from the VGA or serial console?

I think I might grab a cheap gigabit USB to ethernet device and plug it in, that should hopefully show up in the list so you can configure it as LAN (temporary), then you can go into the web gui and install the plugin for the Realtek driver.

Notice I said USB gigabit (or older 100mbps), that way it should be using a chip that is known to the OS, but it's kind of a guess and since I have a few of these devices around, would be my first go to attempt.

[vpx23]

You would have to download the package and transfer it to your OPNsense via a USB stick or similar because you also won't have internet to download the package locally.

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=35915.msg174791#msg174791

https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/24.1/latest/Latest/

[newranman]

A little late. I plug in a USB Ethernet to do get online, then load the plugin. From the Gui go to: System, Firmware, Plugins, os-realtek-re  vendor driver