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[Sid Puri]

hi everyone, i'm another noob that stumbled upon freenas , trying to convert an old pc into a home media storage. currently stuck at the no "configured interfaces were found try to do it manually" however if i connect the same usb to one of my newer machines it works so looking for help

 

[Spearfoot]

hi everyone, i'm another noob that stumbled upon freenas , trying to convert an old pc into a home media storage. currently stuck at the no "configured interfaces were found try to do it manually" however if i connect the same usb to one of my newer machines it works so looking for help

Welcome to the forum!

FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, so checking your mystery PC against the FreeBSD compatible hardware list may help you determine whether or not it has any chance of running successfully. Sounds as though there may be a problem with your network card... But without knowing more about your hardware, we can't possibly know. Tell us your hardware specifications, per the forum guidelines, and folks here will be more inclined to help out.

FreeNAS really needs entry-level server-class hardware to be effective, but unfortunately there is a lot of bad advice on the internet about using an old PC to create a NAS with FreeNAS: I get over 840,000 hits when I search for 'old pc nas'.

Good luck!

 

[Sid Puri]

SYSTEM DETAILS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Hdd Model: WDC WD5000AAKX-60U6AA0 ATA Device currently 1 but will make it 3
Motherboard P5GC-MX-ASUS
LAN CARD DLINK DFE-520TX
RAM IS AT 2X2GB DDR 2
When i boot up with usb it gives the "no configured interfaces were found try to do it manually" error however when i use another pc with
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. System Model: 945GZM-S2
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
LAN CARD DLINK DFE-520TX
ram ddr2 1x2gb
the system boots fines and gives me an ip address

 

[Ericloewe]

Both of those systems are woefully inadequate for FreeNAS.

 

[gpsguy]

Please read the hardware recommendations - http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/intro.html#hardware-recommendations

8GB is the minimum amount of RAM needed. Support for most 10/100 NIC's has been/will be dropped

 

[danb35]

Support for most 10/100 NIC's has been/will be dropped

Has been, per the changelog for 9.10.1-U1.

 

[Spearfoot]

@Sid Puri , perhaps you could try NAS4Free instead of FreeNAS? I believe the NAS4Free hardware requirements are less onerous.

http://www.nas4free.org/

 

[gpsguy]

Yeah, I knew that, but I figured the OP didn't have 9.10.1-U1 yet. ;-)

Has been, per the changelog for 9.10.1-U1.

 

[Sid Puri]

I had planned to get the additional ram installed once the system is working dodnt want to buy and they keep in the drawer. Ok i will try nas4free. my only purpose was to store my home video and photos to free up my destop. thanks everyone