Re: Support for Firebox M270 and the Intel X553 MDIO

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:51 AM Peter A Barlow <peterbarlow2000@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’m looking at running FreeBSD on an old Firebox M270.
> It has a C3558 CPU with integrated X553 LAN controller which connects over
> MDIO to a Marvell 88E6190 switch.
> Out of the box the X553 backplane is detected but there doesn’t seem to be
> any attempt at probing the MDIO for connected devices.
>
> I’ve played around with the Intel ixgbe drivers, compiling the kernel etc
> to see if I can figure it out but I’m really struggling to understand what
> needs to be done.
>
> At this stage I’m reaching out to the community to see if anyone can
> clarify something for me….are there some fundamental changes or additions
> required to the drivers to make this work, or is it something that should
> work already but needs some options enabling or configurations tweaking.
> I’m reluctant to put more time into trawling through the code if it’s a
> ‘simple’ configuration issue.
>
> Any pointers would be very welcome.
> Thank you.
>

I found this thread:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154974/pfsense-on-watchguard-m270/112

I think the TL;DR is that you need pfSense Plus since the required software
to get it to work isn't publicly available.

- Eric