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I am not able to make my newly installed NAS4Free detect the Ethernet Nic on the Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H motherboard.

dmesg | grep -i ethernet returns the following:
pci0: <network, ethernet> at device 25.0 (no driver attached)

pciconf -lv | grep -B3 network
Class = simple comms
none1@pci0:0:25:0: class=0x20000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x153b8086 rev=0x04
hdr=0x00
vendor = Íntel Corporation
class = network

I still do not know which Ethernet gigabit controller is it, but it appears that there is only one driver to download in the the
intel web site https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail ... ldID=17509

The file em-7.3.8.tar.gz contains only source codes that must be compiled.
I was not able to proceed because my NAS4Free does not have MAKE (c compiler).

questions:
1) Am I in the right way? Shall I have to compile the driver?
2) Is there any precompiled file?
3) tutorial to easy the pain of making this NIC work?
4) do you recomend any off board Ethernet NIC? Which one?

Thanks

its most likely the new intel i217 nic.

i should be supported in freebsd 9.2. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/schedule.html

Are there any tutorials on how to install a NIC driver?

Use this for Realtek as tutorial, only need to use apropiate source viewtopic.php?f=58&t=222

http://blog.hani-ibrahim.de/en/netzwerk ... ieren.html


Remember , If You wait a little, in september a new BSD 9.2 is out, and a new N4F can be ready.

I already had tried that, but in this case we only have the source code and not the binaries as in the tutorial.
I decided that buying an add-on Gigabit Ethernet board would be easier.
Both TP-Link TG-3468 (PCIe) or Dlink DGE528T (PCI) are good and cost effective Gigabit Ethernet NICs and will work fine with nas4free.

Either way. I was frustrated by having to wait a day or two and for not easily finding any driver solution.

foxdoismil wrote:Either way. I was frustrated by having to wait a day or two and for not easily finding any driver solution.

sorry, but you must find/read if your mainboard/NIC is compatible with BSD prior to buy.

this is not linux, it's BSD and have less hardware compatibility/actuallizations of drivers: http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php?id=na ... s_hardware

get an other network card, e.g. one of Intel the older nics are fast and well supported in FreeBSD...

It appears that I did not express myself clearly.
The intention of my reply was to tell that i had already bought the new NICs and tested it successfully.
I just tried to help anyone who could face the same problem. That is why I mentioned the models.

I also took the opportunity to suggest that someone (with much better BSD knowledge than me) could make a tutorial on how to build a driver.
I tried, but my NAS4FREE does not have the "c" compiler installed. Than I started this thread.

Well, here we are half a year later and im running into the same problem..have a mini itx board wich uses the intel i217, but nas4free has no support for it..what can i do? Could someone compile the driver from the intel source? I Of course you cant compile it in the nas4free shell because you cant use "make"..help would be greatly appreciated

u have two Options:
wait for a N4F Version which is based on FreeBSD 9.2 or
buy an other Network adapter which is supported. A Intel Desktop CT Adapter is one a have good experiences with.

Not really in the mood to spend even more money right now, so i guess i can only wait..thank goodness my n4f system is still in its test stage

zoon is currently more active again in programming, so maybe it won't last too long......

DL84 wrote:Not really in the mood to spend even more money right now, so i guess i can only wait..thank goodness my n4f system is still in its test stage

Please test this beta is based on BSD 9.2 and MUST Work. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5608


PD: save your actual config.xml, do a new install and restore your previosly saved config , do it in a new bootdevice, if do not work, you only need to unplug and use old boot device to restore your boot.

raulfg3 wrote:

DL84 wrote:Not really in the mood to spend even more money right now, so i guess i can only wait..thank goodness my n4f system is still in its test stage

Please test this beta is based on BSD 9.2 and MUST Work. viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5608


PD: save your actual config.xml, do a new install and restore your previosly saved config , do it in a new bootdevice, if do not work, you only need to unplug and use old boot device to restore your boot.

im already on it.

Does it work then ?

Im on it i.e. im in the process of installing it on my usb stick going to report later

foxdoismil wrote:I
I still do not know which Ethernet gigabit controller is it, but it appears that there is only one driver to download in the the
intel web site https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail ... ldID=17509

The file em-7.3.8.tar.gz contains only source codes that must be compiled.
I was not able to proceed because my NAS4Free does not have MAKE (c compiler).

You have sources and Nas4Free have jail extension, called Thebrig - what problem compille driver?
I compilled it for x64 (9.1) during 1 minute ( I was have installed sources and ports
Download it free https://sites.google.com/site/aganimkar ... g/if_em.ko

alexey123 wrote:

foxdoismil wrote:I
I still do not know which Ethernet gigabit controller is it, but it appears that there is only one driver to download in the the
intel web site https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail ... ldID=17509

The file em-7.3.8.tar.gz contains only source codes that must be compiled.
I was not able to proceed because my NAS4Free does not have MAKE (c compiler).

You have sources and Nas4Free have jail extension, called Thebrig - what problem compille driver?
I compilled it for x64 (9.1) during 1 minute ( I was have installed sources and ports
Download it free https://sites.google.com/site/aganimkar ... g/if_em.ko

Thank you very very much my man. I have to try this out, since the beta is giving me errors left and right.

well im running into another problem here..when i want to kldload the compiled driver it says "can't load /mnt/usb/if_em.ko: File exists"..i followed the instructions on the link above for the embedded version (since i use an usb stick (altho an older n4f version is shown in the guide))..can somebody give me some pointers? Does the driver have to be in a folder on the usb stick wich i just use for the transfer of this file?

May be driver need something
print to forum result after

thats a too long list to type out, since i can't access the n4f box over the webgui (card is not detected)..what specifically do you need to know from the output?

Will wrote last 3 lines dmesg

okay it says:

GEOM: ada2: corrupt or invalid GPT detected
GEOM: ada2: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 []...


and thats that

Power of your server and remove broken drive.

its not broken, its because i changed the mobo/cpu..but yeah already took them out, still the same problem of "file exists" when trying to kldload

I was change motherboard many tymes without problem. One time I replace motherboard from x86 to x64 - from my LAB to Home server, just replace system drive and begin to work

May be your motherboard have defect?
You tried it with another BSD, such mfsbsd or FreeBSD original? Or any Live Linux?

Hardware is all okay. I didn't try out any other BSD because im a windows kid .

Very fast way check motherboard with mfsbsd. Download from here http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ any USB image for 9.2 release, write it with imagewriter on usb -pen and boot.
Password is mfsroot.
From command line
ifconfig, ping...

As i wrote, nothing is defective here. Just please explain to me how to kldload your compiled driver.
edit: tried nf4 9.2 beta and it recognized the NIC, but after that i couldn't boot anymore since it always lost usb power during boot and of course the system couldn't load the config.xml anymore (works fine with 9.1)..odd errors..so is there any way to put the if_em file from the 9.2 iso into the 9.1 iso on windows?

FINALLY SUCCESS...after searching the net some guy on another forum suggested that i try to install the "FULL" installation on my usb stick and try again to copy the driver..well lo and behold it worked with alexey123's compiled driver. Thanks again alexey123 and the rest for helping me with my annoying questions