NIC issue

[breek]

Hi everyone, I'm a novice at best so please be gentle.

I saw that my onboard NIC was only doing 100Mbps so i figured I'd buy a pci-e NIC and see if that makes a difference.
At first all was fine tho after some tinkering I ended up deleting the NIC (pcie) in the webinterface and haven't been able to find it since.

I've reseated it in other slots and back in the same, no dice. Have restored the server to defaults, no change either.

To double check i hadnt shorted the NIC i put it in my desktop and it works fine. Ive looked at some /etc/... conf but didnt get any wiser.


any thoughts? I'm hoping its just blocked somehow because of the delete.


greets breek.

 

[jgreco]

Welcome back to the TrueNAS Forums.

Please help us help you. The Forum Rules, conveniently linked at the top of every page in red, provide guidance about how to construct a more useful problem report. In your case, it would include a bare minimum of your mainboard type, your ethernet card type, and which OS you were running.

The instructions we might give you to check if a cheap Realtek card showed up on TrueNAS SCALE, a Linux-based appliance, are very different than the instructions for the recommended Intel CT Desktop on FreeBSD, and having a clue what's on your mainboard helps too. As it stands, I can only really say "what's the output of lspci" and that's not too helpful to a novice who may not know what to look for in that output.

 

[breek]

Welcome back to the TrueNAS Forums.

Please help us help you. The Forum Rules, conveniently linked at the top of every page in red, provide guidance about how to construct a more useful problem report. In your case, it would include a bare minimum of your mainboard type, your ethernet card type, and which OS you were running.

The instructions we might give you to check if a cheap Realtek card showed up on TrueNAS SCALE, a Linux-based appliance, are very different than the instructions for the recommended Intel CT Desktop on FreeBSD, and having a clue what's on your mainboard helps too. As it stands, I can only really say "what's the output of lspci" and that's not too helpful to a novice who may not know what to look for in that output.

my apologies.

it's an old medion akoya.
mainboard:

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rest is :

CPU series	Intel® Core™ i7
Processor/type	i7-4770
Processor generation	4th Gen (Haswell)
Processor cores (No.)	4 x
CPU speed	3.4 GHz
RAM	8 GB
Graphics card type	Nvidia GeForce
Graphics card type	GTX760
Graphics memory	1.5 GB
SSD size (total)	128 GB
SSD 1 type	SSD
SSD	128 GB
SSD connection	SSD SATA II (300 MB/s)
HDD capacity (total)	2048 GB

I upgraded the RAM tho to 16Gb

PCI-e NIC:
Eminent 10/100/1000 Mbps PCI-e Networking adapter

OS Version:​

TrueNAS-12.0-U8.1

 

[jgreco]

MSI no longer has a page detailing what's on that board that I can find. Given the looks of the board, it is an entry-level low-cost desktop board, which means it is likely to have a really crummy ethernet chipset of some sort. Not particularly good for NAS.

The "Eminent" card I was able to find, the EM4029, also doesn't indicate what kind it is, but appears to be likely to be a Realtek, possibly RTL8111, which may be the same as the chipset on your mainboard.

You haven't indicated what OS you're running. If TrueNAS Core, I would expect "ifconfig re0" to be likely to return interface configuration, though it is unclear if that'd be for the mainboard or add-on card. You can also try "ifconfig -a".

 

[breek]

MSI no longer has a page detailing what's on that board that I can find. Given the looks of the board, it is an entry-level low-cost desktop board, which means it is likely to have a really crummy ethernet chipset of some sort. Not particularly good for NAS.

The "Eminent" card I was able to find, the EM4029, also doesn't indicate what kind it is, but appears to be likely to be a Realtek, possibly RTL8111, which may be the same as the chipset on your mainboard.

You haven't indicated what OS you're running. If TrueNAS Core, I would expect "ifconfig re0" to be likely to return interface configuration, though it is unclear if that'd be for the mainboard or add-on card. You can also try "ifconfig -a".

thats the onboard card. PCI card doesnt list.
Edited the first post.

 

[jgreco]

Could be a bad slot, a bad card, or an unsupported card. Many off-brand ethernet cards used Realtek, but some used other atrocious options that aren't supported at all under Linux or FreeBSD.

 

[breek]

Could be a bad slot, a bad card, or an unsupported card. Many off-brand ethernet cards used Realtek, but some used other atrocious options that aren't supported at all under Linux or FreeBSD.

It has listed before i deleted it and it works on windows. I couldn't have deleted it if it didn't.