Additional NIC not recognized

[Thanatos0042]

Hello there.

I Just set up a new FreeNas server to replace an old and failing QNap NAS.

I prefer to have 2 network cards in my NAS devices and the motherboard I have only came with 1.

So the setup went fine, everything is working, however, it didn't recognize my network card. After doing some reading and googling, I ordered an Intel network card from Amazon: Intel Gigabit CT PCI-E Network Adapter EXPI9301CTBLK

Now, everything I've read said I should be able to plug it in and it should work, but it's not. The system doesn't seem to recognize it as best I can tell.

Unfortunately, I'm not a *nix guy so I'm not 100% sure how to tell if my system really sees it or not. I've tried to run various commands and best I can tell, the system doesn't see it.

I tried moving it from one port to another (I have 2) but the results remain the same.

Can someone suggest another course of action or commands I can utilize to troubleshoot the problem?

thanks.

 

[Thanatos0042]

Well, thanks for taking the time to view my post.

I'm going to go ahead and wipe Freenas off the pc and put on Windows and use it to run my NAS since I can troubleshoot that OS.

 

[jgreco]

There's a lot of fake Intel cards running around on the grey markets like eBay and Amazon. Recent discussion -

https://www.ixsystems.com/community...s-and-pcie-sata-controllers.77743/post-540460

If "ifconfig -a" doesn't show the interface, it's not being found by the system, and it's not too likely to be found by Windows either.