Intel ss4200 boots 9.3, but not visible on network

[garyn_87048]

I installed 9.3 on the box's DOM device (followed these instructions http://www.frijid.net/blog/?p=117) and I can successfully boot now (woohoo!), but the device does not appear on the network. The network does have dhcp available which other devices successfully use.

Here is ifconfig:
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=4219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO>
ether 00:15:17:31:f3:22
inet 192.168.0.186 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
ipfw0: flags=8801<UP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 65536
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

The boot log is attached as an upload.

Any idea what I need to change/add to the boot so that the device is visible on the network?

Thanks!

 

[depasseg]

looks like you are only running with 512MB of RAM. Is that correct?

What does the console screen show you once it boots?

When you say it's not visible, what does that mean? Can you ping the address? No webpage? No share showing up in Windows Explorer? The fact that you have an IP address assigned and that ntd is able to reach out and get the time update point to something local to your setup (like not nearly enough RAM).

 

[anodos]

FreeNAS requires 8GB RAM. Please review forum stickies.

 

[garyn_87048]

Thanks for the feedback. I was trying to resurrect some old hardware and yesterday I ordered 2G of memory (max the MB can address, $14) which will arrive next week. I was just reading the "manual create swap partition" thread on this site. However, I think I'm dealing with hardware that is just too old/limited.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I ordered 2G of memory (max the MB can address, $14) ... I think I'm dealing with hardware that is just too old/limited.

I agree!

You might want to try something like Ubuntu Server, with webmin for management.

 

[anodos]

I agree!

You might want to try something like Ubuntu Server, with webmin for management.

Pentium M, 4 sata ports, intel gigabit. Not a bad design for what it is. Probably not enough oomph for doing anything other than basic file sharing. If it were me, I'd look at installing centos 6.x and configuring samba. Look into 'swat'. It's pretty lightweight and a decent way of admining a samba 3.x server.

Note that swat has been removed from recent versions of samba, but I believe the default samba in Centos 6 is from the 3.6 branch. Swat should work with it. Despite being an old version of samba, Red Hat backports security fixes and so you should be safe running it. Otherwise webmin works relatively well, and of course manually editing the smb.conf file works best. :)