Web GUI or NIC issues

[cocosat]

Hello,

I have installed 9.3 Freenas on an old PC with intel pentium 4 HT 3.6 GHz, added a Dlink DGE-528T NIC and some drives just for testing. I have a TP-Link Archer C5 router setup on DHCP from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.199
Router has 192.168.1.1/24
Nas has 192.168.1.199/24 fixed(not on DHCP - tried also with DHCP)
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
DNS: 1. 192.168.1.1 2. 8.8.8.8 3. one of my ISPs

The issue is that i cannot acces the WebGUI at 192.168.1.199 in Chrome/Edge/IExplore - greeted with timed out. Ping is 1 ms to NAS from my PC and router. Ping is reaching 8.8.8.8(google.com) and www.yahoo.com, also 192.168.1.1 and my PC.

I had it installed previously with a realtek 100Mbps NIC and worked. The onboard NIC is faulty.
Reinstalled all again and the same issue.

I'm a newb at freebsd and linux generally and tried but didnt succeded on updating the drivers from realtek site. The chip on DGE-528T is Realtek 8169 from what i saw on this forum.

Hope that someone can help
Best regards

L.E.: 4 GB

 

[pirateghost]

How much RAM do you have installed in this TEST system? Please note that all of your hardware is horribly inadequate for a real FreeNAS install....

 

[cocosat]

4 GB of RAM installed. It worked very good earlier. My best guess isnt the rest of components as they were the same before.

 

[pirateghost]

8gb RAM is the minimum and less than that can cause issues like you're seeing right now.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

DHCP from 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.199
Nas has 192.168.1.199

Why is the static IP of the NAS within the DHCP range of the router? You might have an address conflict.

 

[cocosat]

I tried with fixed 192.168.1.2 also and didnt work.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

tried but didnt succeded on updating the drivers

This is not the right approach with FreeNAS. If you need drivers that are not included, submit a feature request.

It may very well be inadequate hardware, particularly lack of RAM, that's causing your problem, but I'm surprised you can't reach the GUI at all. Does the machine at least boot to the console menu?

 

[cocosat]

yep. its booting all right. i can get into shell and all(ping external IPs)

How can i request a feature ?

 

[pirateghost]

Realtek drivers will not likely ever make it into a build. I wouldn't waste your time. We KNOW that realtek is horrible shit and that's why we say stay away from it.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

But the network seems to be functioning.

When I run FreeNAS in a VM with 4GB I can access the GUI.

I'm stumped. As a sanity check, go back to the NIC that worked before. It's not as though this system or the 'new' NIC are going to be part of your final setup.