Support for Ubiquiti PoE

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 14:28:37 +0000
Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote:

> Hi. Does anyone know if this device is supported?
> 
> It's similar to the EdgeRouterLite (ERL) which does run FreeBSD. The
> PoE has 2 WAN ethernet ports and 3 LAN ethernet ports. The ERL has 2
> WAN and 1 LAN ethernet ports.
> 
> I found a bootable image for the ERL (FreeBSD 10.1) on the net and
> installed it. Although this boots and runs OK, the kernel doesn't see
> the 3 LAN ports. I suspect they might be hanging off a second switch
> (chipset?) on the motherboard and the kernel doesn't know about it or
> how to probe for it at boot time.
> 
> FWIW Ubiquiti's firmware is Linux. I'd prefer not to run that or try
> to make sense of Linux kernel code and retro-fit that into FreeBSD.
> 
> Here's what's in dmesg.boot. The kernel "sees" octe2 which presumably
> is the first of the LAN ethernet ports. But it fails to do anything
> with it. Maybe a device driver needs tweaked to recognise the
> slightly different chipset(s) for the PoE? Any ideas?
> 
> 
> octebus0: <Cavium Octeon Ethernet pseudo-bus> on ciu0
> Interface 0 has 3 ports (RGMII)
> Warning: Enabling IPD when IPD already enabled.
> Warning: Enabling PKO when PKO already enabled.
> octe0: <Cavium Octeon RGMII Ethernet> on octebus0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on octe0
> atphy0: <Atheros F1 10/100/1000 PHY> PHY 7 on miibus0
> atphy0: OUI 0x00c82e, model 0x0007, rev. 2
> atphy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseSX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto octe0: bpf
> attached octe0: Ethernet address: 80:2a:a8:8e:2c:23
> octe1: <Cavium Octeon RGMII Ethernet> on octebus0
> miibus1: <MII bus> on octe1
> atphy1: <Atheros F1 10/100/1000 PHY> PHY 6 on miibus1
> atphy1: OUI 0x00c82e, model 0x0007, rev. 2
> atphy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseSX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto octe1: bpf
> attached octe1: Ethernet address: 80:2a:a8:8e:2c:24
> octe2: <Cavium Octeon RGMII Ethernet> on octebus0
> octe2: attaching PHYs failed
> octe2: bpf attached
> octe2: Ethernet address: 80:2a:a8:8e:2c:25
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IIRC, the switch is an FPGA based proprietary design and even on Linux
(really, EdgeOS), you need a binary blob to support it, so PoE is an
extremely poor choice for anything custom. I'd say stay away from POE
unless you plan to run Ubiquiti software on it.
 
-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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