Realtek 2.5 Gbit Lan

[Karla]

I have two Realtek 2.5 Gbit Lan adapters is my new firewall computer.

But no network adapters are found during installation.

Is the hardware defective ?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Probably they are simply not supported by FreeBSD.

Hardware compatibility list:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/hardware/#ethernet
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&sektion=4&format=html

I cannot find any 2.5G Realtek adapers in there, only 1G Realtek and 2.5G Intel.

[meyergru]

You probably need the os-realtek-re plugin. Without a network connection, it is a little hard to install it, though.

[rdunkle84]

I have realtek nics on two systems.
I am using arm64.
I compile the ports myself or fetch the package and manually install the driver.

realtek is supported by these ports:

https://www.freshports.org/net/realtek-re-kmod/
https://www.freshports.org/net/realtek-rge-kmod/

This is the one for arm64:
https://www.freshports.org/net/realtek-re-kmod198/

To bootstrap the process you could use a usb nic to get connectivity.

[Karla]

I have bought an Intel 82576 based dual port Lan card.