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FYI - after heaps of hours trying to get this to work, I'm posting here on how to install pfsense on this box (This is not a full walkthrough - but you should get the drift of it)
Note - I did this on two Cubi 5's and took me literally hours and hours with a lot of googling and running heaps of commands and rebooting on both attempts! So if you use these instructions your mileage may vary!
1 - turn off secureboot - Boot into a Windows11 installer and "repair computer" - "advanced" - "boot into uefi" (Using widows to boot into UEFI is needed to make secureboot persistant) also you may have to update the bios to =>880 (I needed to) and disable some other hardware (un supported in pfsense/FreeBSD) etc.
2 - use 2.7.0 of pfsense iso installer (This has the required PKG file of realtek-re-kmod to recognize the 2.5g NIC)
3 - on first bootup of installer press "3" to get to shell, type the following
I used this after a few hours with the first Cubi and it just worked, tried on the second it took me a few more time to do #7 et.al.
So shout out to Digital Spaceport on youtube!
Note - I did this on two Cubi 5's and took me literally hours and hours with a lot of googling and running heaps of commands and rebooting on both attempts! So if you use these instructions your mileage may vary!
1 - turn off secureboot - Boot into a Windows11 installer and "repair computer" - "advanced" - "boot into uefi" (Using widows to boot into UEFI is needed to make secureboot persistant) also you may have to update the bios to =>880 (I needed to) and disable some other hardware (un supported in pfsense/FreeBSD) etc.
2 - use 2.7.0 of pfsense iso installer (This has the required PKG file of realtek-re-kmod to recognize the 2.5g NIC)
3 - on first bootup of installer press "3" to get to shell, type the following
- set hint.uart.0.disabled="1"
- set hint.uart.1.disabled="1"
- set hint.agp.0.disabled="1"
- boot
- *note* You will have to do this on every boot until you do #8 & #9 otherwise the boot will hang
- 4 - select re0 as wan (which is/was the 1g adapter for me) and dhcp etc to you can connect to pfsense (and internet)
- 5 - select "8" to get to shell and type
- pkg install realtek-re-kmod (This is why we need to install 2.7.0.)
- 6 - if no errors reboot and you now should see "re1" which is the 2.5G nic and go ahead and reassign Interfaces & IP's and you should be good to go, otherwise type the following
- pkg install realtek-re-kmod - HAPPY DAYS!!!! enjoy pfsense! otherwise...
- 7 - if you get the error 'ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libssl.so.30" not found, required by "pkg"' Then go to the boot dir in the shell and type
pkg-static bootstrap -f (reinstalls pkg manager) - pkg delete realtek-re-kmod (removes the broken realtek pkg)
- - then maybe type certctl rehash just for yips and giggles to refresh the certs
- pkg install realtek-re-kmod (reinstalls it)
- 8 - type the following
- cd ..
cd boot
9 - The add the following lines in the following files
ee loader.conf.local (I also did "loader.conf) and add the following lines
hint.uart.0.disabled="1"
hint.uart.1.disabled="1"
hint.agp.0.disabled="1"
if_re_load="YES"
if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko" (press escape and exit/save etc)
- 10 - reboot and hopefully all is good in the world
So shout out to Digital Spaceport on youtube!