Enchanted14
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Hello,
I am new to FreeNAS and FreeBSD but am not a novice to computing. I have built a FreeNAS box, have installed the FreeNAS OS, have it up and running with Plex Media installed and working. My issue is that I am using an Intel i217 NIC which FreeNAS supports but in a limited manner. As far as I can tell the NIC is only running at 100Mbps but is a 1000Mbps device. Additionally WOL and Jumbo Frames are not enabled. So I would like to correct these short comings.
I have located a FreeBSD driver for the NIC on the Intel website and would like to install it in my FreeNAS installation which I made on a USB stick. My hope is that this driver would enable the WOL function. The documentation for installing the driver assumes that the user has a fair degree of FreeBSD knowledge from the start which I admit I do not but I am capable of following instructions and I come from the days of old DOS command line usage so I believe I am up to the task of doing this.
The driver documentation states that the driver should not be installed in the root kernel but rather used as a loadable module from a directory of the users choice. I get that but what I cannot figure out is
1. How do I choose or create a directory for this purpose?
2. Is there or would there be a preferable directory to use for this?
3. The driver tar file is at present on a USB stick, (not the OS install stick). What command would be used to cp the tar file from the USB stick to the directory of choice?
4. All directories I have managed to navigated to are Read Only so to write to them is not possible. How do you address or get around this?
I am hoping this thread will be viewed by a FreeNAS advanced user whom might tell me if in fact this is worth doing in the first place? If not then what would I do for example to enable Jumbo Frames which the NIC and all other network hardware are capable of to at least take advantage of that feature while awaiting hopefully more robust support for my NIC?
I am currently running FreeNAS version 9.2.1.7 and I do see that version 9.2.1.8 is now available. Would upgrading to the latest build address my WOL issue?
I am attaching the Intel install instructions for those whom wish to help convenience.
Thanks in advance for any help here.
I am new to FreeNAS and FreeBSD but am not a novice to computing. I have built a FreeNAS box, have installed the FreeNAS OS, have it up and running with Plex Media installed and working. My issue is that I am using an Intel i217 NIC which FreeNAS supports but in a limited manner. As far as I can tell the NIC is only running at 100Mbps but is a 1000Mbps device. Additionally WOL and Jumbo Frames are not enabled. So I would like to correct these short comings.
I have located a FreeBSD driver for the NIC on the Intel website and would like to install it in my FreeNAS installation which I made on a USB stick. My hope is that this driver would enable the WOL function. The documentation for installing the driver assumes that the user has a fair degree of FreeBSD knowledge from the start which I admit I do not but I am capable of following instructions and I come from the days of old DOS command line usage so I believe I am up to the task of doing this.
The driver documentation states that the driver should not be installed in the root kernel but rather used as a loadable module from a directory of the users choice. I get that but what I cannot figure out is
1. How do I choose or create a directory for this purpose?
2. Is there or would there be a preferable directory to use for this?
3. The driver tar file is at present on a USB stick, (not the OS install stick). What command would be used to cp the tar file from the USB stick to the directory of choice?
4. All directories I have managed to navigated to are Read Only so to write to them is not possible. How do you address or get around this?
I am hoping this thread will be viewed by a FreeNAS advanced user whom might tell me if in fact this is worth doing in the first place? If not then what would I do for example to enable Jumbo Frames which the NIC and all other network hardware are capable of to at least take advantage of that feature while awaiting hopefully more robust support for my NIC?
I am currently running FreeNAS version 9.2.1.7 and I do see that version 9.2.1.8 is now available. Would upgrading to the latest build address my WOL issue?
I am attaching the Intel install instructions for those whom wish to help convenience.
Thanks in advance for any help here.