Tehuti TN4010 / TN9710P 10gb NIC

[nuguet]

Hi, everyone, i'm trying to get this NIC to work, but just don't have the knowledge to do so.

lspci

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Tehuti Networks Ltd. TN9710P 10GBase-T/NBASE -T Ethernet Adapter

i did a get the driver from Tehuti Networks, but i can't or don't know to do it.

can i get some help?

 

[Arwen]

First step, is the driver you got, a FreeBSD driver?

If not, and if FreeNAS does not have a built in driver, then don't bother.

Hardware manufacturers tend to support the high volume or high profit
OSes first, like MS-Windows or Linux. It might take many months, even
years before we see FreeNAS support for that specific Ethernet chipset.

 

[DrKK]

As usual, @Ericloewe has the definitive answer:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...-10g-fiber-nic-and-freenas.58881/#post-416367

 

[nuguet]

true, only Linux distro, not FreeBSD...

tks everyone

so on that note, can you recommend a distro to do a zfs array?

 

[Arwen]

There are only a few Linux distros that directly support ZFS. Even fewer that directly support root FS on ZFS.

For example, I use Linux distro Gentoo. Mostly because I originally had a pretty slow media server and laptop,
which benefitted from the performance improvements I gained from custom software builds. While Gentoo has
excellent ZFS support, including root on ZFS, I would not recommend installing Gentoo for anyone. (Meaning if
you don't know about Gentoo, you are better served by another, easier to install and manage, Linux distro.)

You can check out the following which seem to support ZFS to varying degrees;

• Ubuntu
• Arch
• Debian
• CentOS / RHEL
• Fedora
  
• Devun
• OpenSUSE
• Antergos

The last one even supports installing ZFS as root FS, via installation GUI, (if I remember correctly).

I don't have a particular recommendation.