First NAS, TruNas, etc

[jhogan93]

hey guys, im building my first NAS and i want to try to use TruNas. i downloaded the ISO, followed the guide, but for what ever reason i cant get to setup the network thingy. it either says unable to configure or 0.0.0.0.0. help?

[jhogan93]

let me re-word my previous statement, when i restart into trunas it doesnt give me an IP address. its plugged to router, and i dont know the steps needed to trouble shoot this

[jhogan93]

[Electronics Wizardy]

58 minutes ago, jhogan93 said:

Try setting a static IP, and see if that works.

 

What are the system specs? Truenas can be kinda picky about hardware.

[jhogan93]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try setting a static IP, and see if that works.

 

What are the system specs? Truenas can be kinda picky about hardware.

cpu: 2500k
MB: Asus P8B75
ram: 16gbs
120gb ssd (os)

 

 

how would i set a static IP?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

22 minutes ago, jhogan93 said:

cpu: 2500k
MB: Asus P8B75
ram: 16gbs
120gb ssd (os)

 

 

how would i set a static IP?

 

use the 1 option for configure network interfaces to give it a static ip.

 

But good chance the nic isn't support in truenas.

 

Did you try something like unraid? 

[jhogan93]

TruNas is the only OS ive tried so far. any recommendations?

[jhogan93]

yup it was the motherboard. i swapped in a AMD system and boom! it seems to be working. thanks for the help!

[_hitman_]

Truenas CORE is notoriously bad with realtek nics. TrueNAS scale is better option with realtek nics.

[JerryW233]

On 12/4/2021 at 3:58 AM, _hitman_ said:

Truenas CORE is notoriously bad with realtek nics. TrueNAS scale is better option with realtek nics.

CORE and SCALE have the same problem, no Realtek support.  It's out there, but it seems a Herculean task to make it work.

[_hitman_]

10 hours ago, JerryW233 said:

CORE and SCALE have the same problem, no Realtek support.  It's out there, but it seems a Herculean task to make it work.

Scale is working with realtek with no problems, it is based on debian.

Core/Freebsd does not like rtl chipsets.

[Jarsky]

On 4/21/2022 at 4:46 AM, _hitman_ said:

Scale is working with realtek with no problems, it is based on debian.

Core/Freebsd does not like rtl chipsets.

 

Yes Scale is based on Debian, but its still its own stripped down version. Scale was missing support for a lot of Realtek controllers until a few months ago. 

[OhioYJ]

On 4/20/2022 at 2:20 AM, JerryW233 said:

CORE and SCALE have the same problem, no Realtek support.  It's out there, but it seems a Herculean task to make it work.

 

You can just install Realtek drivers? My motherboard had a Realtek NIC on it that wasn't supported, downloaded the drivers, loaded them, and it worked.  These are my personal notes from when I loaded the drivers for my TrueNAS build, if it helps anyone (1.96.04 were the version of drivers I loaded)

 

Copy version 1.96.04 to /boot/kernel
    - cp if_re.ko /boot/kernel
    - chown root:wheel /boot/kernel/if_re.ko  (Change owner)
    - chmod 555 /boot/kernel/if_re.ko   (Change permissions)
Edit /boot/loader.conf To include if_re_load="YES" This line can be anywhere. Must use vi.
    - vi /boot/loader.conf  

 

After doing this, my Realtek NIC just worked as expected. Don't get me wrong, it's easier to have a supported NIC, but it's not game over if your NIC isn't supported.