jovimon

How to compile and install latest realtek network driver in pfSense 2.4.x (FreeBSD 11.1)

1. Download FreeBSD 11.1 VMDK and create a VM with it as HDD.

2. Get FreeBSD source tree for your exact FreeBSD version and uncompress it to /usr/src:

   fetch -o /tmp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/`uname -s`/releases/`uname -m`/`uname -r | cut -d'-' -f1,2`/src.txz
   tar -C / -xvf /tmp/src.txz
   

3. Download latest Realtek network driver (you need to input an email address).

silveraid

# Create a folder for our new root structure
$ export centos_root='/centos_image/rootfs'
$ mkdir -p $centos_root
# initialize rpm database
$ rpm --root $centos_root --initdb
# download and install the centos-release package, it contains our repository sources
$ yum reinstall --downloadonly --downloaddir . centos-release
$ rpm --root $centos_root -ivh centos-release*.rpm
$ rpm --root $centos_root --import  $centos_root/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7
# install yum without docs and install only the english language files during the process