bnxt driver for Broadcom NIC cards now automatically loaded

[Thomas Niedermeier]

Hello,

we recently tested upgrades and also fresh installs of OPNsense 24.7 RC2 with different systems.
It runs fine without any issues hardware wise with our test systems.

We discovered that the bnxt driver for Broadcom 10G/25G NIC cards will be automatically loaded when such a card ist installed. Thats very nice and saves work during install!
It's already useable if you fire up a OPNsense 24.7 RC2 boot drive and run it in live mode.

But unfortunately I didn't find any hint proving this outcome. Do you know if the bnxt driver is now directly compiled into the kernel?
I did some research on a system with 24.7 RC2 and if you call kldstat it prompts that the if_bnxt.ko is loaded.

Best regards and thanks again for your great work!
Thomas

[franco]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for testing!

Yet I'm not aware of any changes and the 14.0 and 14.1 release notes do not mention this either.


Cheers,
Franco