HP NC523SFP Driver For Freenas 9.3

[navdahmd]

Hi,

Im new Bee and i have HP NC523SFP Dual Port 10Gig Network Adapter. Can anyone help me how to load its driver on Freenas 9.3. how to make it functional.

Regards

NAD

 

[Mlovelace]

The HP NC523SFP uses a qlogic asic, which I don't believe FreeNAS supports. You can't install a driver in freeNAS as it's designed to be an appliance OS. You would have to build the driver into a custom freeNAS build, which is doable if you have the correct freebsd qlogic driver.

 

[m0nkey_]

You can always submit a feature requests to the developers asking to include the driver.

 

[navdahmd]

Thanks for prompt reply. But i have ne experienced in writing a driver . can you shared any resource link. ..

 

[m0nkey_]

Thanks for prompt reply. But i have ne experienced in writing a driver . can you shared any resource link. ..

I'm not expecting you to write a driver! As far as I can tell, a driver is available for FreeBSD 10.3 (which FreeNAS 9.10 is based). You simply need to request the driver to be included for FreeNAS.

 

[navdahmd]

Thnks

I have submitting my request to https://www.redmine.org/issues/23965.

Thanks for support

 

[Ericloewe]

Thnks

I have submitting my request to https://www.redmine.org/issues/23965.

Thanks for support

Why on earth did you file a bug at redmine? That has nothing to do with FreeNAS drivers, it's the project that does the bugtracker used by many projects, including FreeNAS.

 

[navdahmd]

We im new to this forum and i didnt know where to put my request one of guy told me to put your request at Redmine and send me link as you see.

Please guide me ... thanks

 

[SweetAndLow]

You can always submit a feature requests to the developers asking to include the driver.

^ we already tried to guide you.

Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

 

[Ericloewe]

one of guy told me to put your request at Redmine

Nobody said redmine and the link you got was for the FreeNAS bug tracker.

 

[m0nkey_]

How the heck did that happen?

 

[pirateghost]

That's impressive

 

[Stux]

How the heck did that happen?

There is a link to Redmine on the bug tracker. If you click it nothing happens (except words change ;), but who reads pesky words anyway).

Then you submit a bug.

 

[JustinClift]

We im new to this forum and i didnt know where to put my request one of guy told me to put your request at Redmine and send me link as you see.

Please guide me ... thanks

If you're still interested in this, the place you need to file a new request is here:

https://bugs.freenas.org/projects/freenas/issues/new​

It needs to you register (free) with them first though, so they can communicate with you about the request:

https://bugs.freenas.org/account/register​

Out of curiosity, do you have any experience with Unix like systems? (eg BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc)

If you do, it's not hard to build your own version of FreeNAS, with a FreeBSD driver included. It might be useful to do anyway. :)

 

[navdahmd]

JustinClift: Thanks , well i dont have any experience of Unix or any of its flavour but i love to learn it. Im Microsoft user and in of good NAS/DAS Server and i found FreeNAS is very stable and with Great Options.

Well i am just starting to learn FreeBsd , if you have any suggestion for Newbie (Me) please share. :)

 

[JustinClift]

Sure. :)

With FreeBSD, and Unix systems in general, it's a good idea to become familiar with the command line. Most administration guides / tasks assume an understanding of it. You've probably already noticed that though. ;)

I don't have any particular guides to point at, as a lot of info/tutorials can be found through a Google (or similar) search. You just need to take the time/effort to go through some of them (can be hard).

When you are ready to try building FreeNAS yourself, there is a step by step guide here:

https://github.com/freenas/freenas-...--10-—-Setting-up-a-FreeNAS-build-environment

That won't include the driver for your HP NC523SFP card, but it *is* the foundation towards getting there. If you can get FreeNAS building using that guide, I can give you the steps for including your own driver stuff.

Btw, if/when you do start building FreeNAS, it's a good idea to do it inside a Virtual machine (on your Windows box or something). That way, if something goes wrong it's easy to start over again.

Does that help? :)

 

[navdahmd]

JustinClift: Its Good to start from here, i hope it will help me to build and understand FreeNas of my OWN ;)

Yes its helpful :) Thanks

 

[JustinClift]

You're welcome. :)

As a data point for later, the driver you seem to need is called "qlxgb". I'm not 100% sure of that though, it's my guess from doing some Google searches.

This HP page says your card is based on the "QLogic cLOM8214" controller.

The qlxgb manual page says it supports "QLogic 8200 series".

Seems like a reasonable guess though. :)