On 04/09/2012 19:33, Brian Stivala wrote: > I have a watchguard firewall v80 which I’ve decided to amend it to PFSense > based on freebsd. So far I’ve installed PFSense and everything is working > accordingly. This firewall has 2x onboard nic cards and a PCI quad nic, as > per attached photo.
Unfortunately the list management software ate your photo, but never
mind. Your verbal description is sufficient.
> The onboard nics can be recognized however the PCI card is not being
> recognised, and the strange thing is that both onboard and the PCI uses the
> same chipset Intel 82559er Ethernet. How can I amend changes in freebsd
> modules so that the PCI card can be recognised.
There may be a good reason for your quad card not being recognised, or
it might just be a bug.
If you run:
% pciconf -lv
You should be able to pick out your unrecognised device. If you ask
again on freebsd-...@freebsd.org and include relevant sections from
the pciconf output, you should get to the attention of some of the guys
that write network drivers.
> Usually in other distros modules can be located in /etc/module however I
> cannot find where the modules are located in freebsd.
Verb Sap. Calling FreeBSD a 'distro' is definitely non-U. We generally
consider penguins a bit fishy round here...
If you want to locate the kernel modules for various hardware, look in
/boot/kernel. NIC modules will generally have a name beginning 'if_'.
If you want to see what modules have been loaded into the kernel, then
run:
% kldstat
There's also 'kldload' and 'kldunload' but they aren't going to help you
for this problem. PCI devices are discovered when the kernel probes the
bus at boot time: if the kernel hasn't already assigned a driver for the
device, then there isn't one available.
> Can I have some assistance.
Keeps asking good questions and you'll get useful answers.
Cheers,
Matthew
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