ax88179_178a.c fixed for proxmox (e.g. use with FreeBSD / opnsense)

[PSteinberg]

by P.Steinberg

WHY I DID THIS: Because in opnsense / FreeBSD Passthrough of USB3 ax88179_178a was a pain. Either only 100Mbit or not working at all. Figured out it must be a driver problem in PVE in connection with FreeBSD.

THIS MOD works like the old driver in any Linux , but now also very nice as a Linux Bridge in FreeBSD or for my case opnsense 19.x

Everything needs to be done in the PVE Shell

I) Download and unpack driver and delete not working ax88179_178a.c file

cd ~ mkdir download cd download wget https://www.asix.com.tw/FrootAttach/driver/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.19.0_SOURCE.tar.bz2 tar -xvjf AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.19.0_SOURCE.tar.bz2 cd AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.19.0_SOURCE rm ax88179_8178a.c

II) make new working ax88179_178a file
nano ax88179_178a.c

copy and paste this code to the editor

https://pastebin.com/cFpKHiCm


STRG + S to save
STRG + x to leave nano


III) Compile and copy the driver to the kernel files depending on your Kernel the Kernel Path need to be updated
in my case Kernel Version is "5.0.21-4-pve"
so path is : /lib/modules/5.0.21-4-pve/kernel/drivers/net/usb/

compile as follows:

make -j2 make install

you should now have a ax88179_178a.ko file

copy it to your kernel path - maybe backup the existing old ax88179_8178_a.ko

cp ax88179_178a.ko /lib/modules/5.0.21-4-pve/kernel/drivers/net/usb/ depmod -a modprobe ax88179_178a

Then reboot either Network manually or if you have no clue then
Reboot PVE

After that you can ad ax88179_178a to a vmbrX (Linux Bridge) and set this vmbrX as Network Card to your FreeBSD / opnsense

Reboot PVE again

Now the device should be full working in your FreeBSD / OPNSENSE with 1Gbit

Enjoy this mod - I hope i could help anyone

Took me looooong evenings to figure out and fix this. opnsense is running like a charme with it. ax88179_178a is in my case the WAN Adapter on a 200MBIt/s port so 100MBit/s was not enough.

cheers PSteinberg

PS: NICE PRODUCT - PVE rocks

 

[MariusClaudiu]

hi
i guess this command it s wrong :

rm ax88179_8178a.c

wright it s :

rm ax88179_178a.c

but anyway
i was try to compile the driver but didn t work
possible i need something new file ( https://pastebin.com/cFpKHiCm )
i have freebsd 13.2 and usb nic tplink ue306 based on Axis AX88179
if somebody can help me
thank s a lot

 

[PSteinberg]

hi
i guess this command it s wrong :

rm ax88179_8178a.c

wright it s :

rm ax88179_178a.c

but anyway
i was try to compile the driver but didn t work
possible i need something new file ( https://pastebin.com/cFpKHiCm )
i have freebsd 13.2 and usb nic tplink ue306 based on Axis AX88179
if somebody can help me
thank s a lot

Hey Marius - that post was made 4 years ago - and you are right there is a mispelling .

BUT it should work out of the box by now - make a new thread and the forum will help you

 

[MariusClaudiu]

thank s for quik answear
if you are kind make it for tplink ue300 too
it s based on rtl8153

i saw on internet a lot of people use them both , but i didn t find nowhere how to fix this problem , except here

this both usb nic adaptors make no problems on pfsense { freebsd 14 } or ipfire linux firewall distro

 

[thelinhlge]

Everything needs to be done in the PVE Shell

root@pve:~/download# tar -xvjf asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0.tar.bz2
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88179_178a.h
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax_main.h
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88179a_programmer.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax_ptp.h
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88179_178a.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax_ioctl.h
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88179a_772d.h
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/Makefile
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax_ptp.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax_main.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88179_programmer.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88179a_772d.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88179a_ieee.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/Readme
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/axcmd.c
asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0/ax88279_programmer.c
root@pve:~/download# cd asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0
root@pve:~/download/asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0# rm ax88179_178a.c
root@pve:~/download/asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0# make -j2
-bash: make: command not found
root@pve:~/download/asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0# make install
-bash: make: command not found
root@pve:~/download/asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0# Makefile -j2
-bash: Makefile: command not found
root@pve:~/download/asix_usb_nic_linux_driver_v3.1.0# makefile -j2
-bash: makefile: command not found

I face above message? how to fixed it? Thanks.

 

[MariusClaudiu]

hi
if you run
rm ax88179_178a.c

this file : ax88179_178a.c will be gone
and you can t compile whitout it
problem it s we do not have a updated file
if someone have it please help us
thank s a lot