DLink is mostly crap anyway. Experience with and straight from a former DLink employee. I have had great success with cheap netgear cards though (have a gigabit with offloading running currently in my firewall). But yes, stick with approved hardware as its overall easier.
-Sean -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 4:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Installing new NIC with unsupported drivers On Nov 9, 2007 11:11 AM, Rahav Nathaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Apologies for the cross-post with the forum.pfsense.com but I am > working under a very urgent deadline to get my box up and running and have > encountered a major hurdle: > > > I have a D-Link DGE-560T NIC that I'm trying to get working on a new > pfsense box running 1.2-RC3 . > > As per this post: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10873.html > I have downloaded the Marvell drivers for the DLink. > (note the user comments on New Egg for why Marvell drivers are better > than DLinks : > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127163&Tpk=dlink%2b DGE560T) > > First problem I had was that libmbpool.ko was missing and required by > the driver. > A kind soul on the pfsense forums gave me a copy for 1.2-RC3 which I > put in /boot/kernel/ > > next, executing the command kldload if_myk.ko (the driver) completes > successfully but the NIC does not come up. > > Since I am new to FreeBSD (but not to *nix) can somebody please give me > advice how to troubleshoot this? > > I > checked dmsg and saw a Network Controller without a driver assigned to > it on PCI7. I can assume this is my DLink since all the other NIC's are > loaded fine. > > Please, any advice as to how to trouble shoot this would be greatly > appreciated. Why not purchase a NIC that is supported? They are CHEAP these days. Pick up a Intel NIC. Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
