On Wed 04 May 2016 02:33:36 NZST +1200, WebDawg wrote: > https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/hardware.html#usb
In my epxerience the freebsd supported-hardware list is pretty lousy, both in terms of its length and of its quality. The fact that some piece of HW is listed as supported does not mean that the driver will actually work (kernel panics every few minutes for stuff listed as fully supported!), let alone that the driver is available in pfsense. I have used an adapter with AX88772A for 2y to connect a wifi AP and it has been reliable, with pfsense 2.2.x. Only 100M but that was good enough for me at the time. Really cheap too, US$12 shipped: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-New-USB-2-0-Ethernet-10-100Mbps-RJ45-Network-Lan-Adapter-Card-WinXP-PC/1121354645.html The RTL8152 is complete rubbish on freebsd / pfsense 2.1, 2.2 (plug in and go on Linux). Apparently the driver has been improved but I have not yet retested. Dunno MCS7832 based ones. > ASIX Electronics AX88178A/AX88179 USB Gigabit Ethernet adapters (axge(4) Thanks for that info! But the amaplonkers can't even ship that to New Zealand, and it's still only USB2.0 thus aliexpress is a fraction of the price, and they can actually ship it too. > You would want USB 3.0 support if you want to support Gigabit speeds. I > never got to get that far into USB testing. Despite the negativity, I'd be highly interested in hearing more about these too. So far no-one has spoken up - who has tested one of these? WHICH CHIPSET? (Only the chipset info matters, the manufacturer is pretty much irrelevant.) Regardless, there is one other problem with pfsense. If you pull the adapter out, or it breaks, and you reboot, pfsense doesn't even boot any longer. So on an APU board you go connect a serial cable and diddle around with interface assignments, where pfsesne decides to sit instead of running with a missing interface. Quite a ridiculous design IMHO! Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header. http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
