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Using a WiFi motherboard with TrueNAS Scale

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Hi all -

 

I am currently building a NAS for my home and I had a Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI motherboard sitting around that I wanted to use for the project.  The motherboard has WiFi on it and I was wondering since I know in Gigabytes BIOS there is no way to disable the WiFi, if it is possible to disable it somehow in TrueNAS?

 

I do not want to have to get a different motherboard if I can avoid it.

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under the cover behind the rear IO, there's probably a M.2 WIFI Card.  Pop the cover off and remove the card.

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37 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

By default it should just not connect and do nothing, so I wouldn't worry about it.

^^^ I don't think TrueNAS even includes the drivers for it. Have a TrueNAS Scale box at work, on a wifi-equipped motherboard, and the only network interfaces that show up are the onboard 1GbE NIC and the dual 10G PCIe NIC:

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5 hours ago, PenguinMaster said:

Hi all -

 

I am currently building a NAS for my home and I had a Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI motherboard sitting around that I wanted to use for the project.  The motherboard has WiFi on it and I was wondering since I know in Gigabytes BIOS there is no way to disable the WiFi, if it is possible to disable it somehow in TrueNAS?

 

I do not want to have to get a different motherboard if I can avoid it.

Why would you need a different mobo..? Consumer mobo’s have sound cards…. No one goes and disables the sound card. 

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