Nic not supported

[Stephanj]

Hi , I have installed freenas but the Ip address do not show and as far as I read up it appears that freenas is not supporting the ethernet card. It is an old dell inspiron 6400 laptop and it has a broadcom 440 x10/100 integrated nic.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Stephan

 

[dlavigne]

Post the output of ifconfig within code tags.

 

[Mirfster]

It is an old dell inspiron 6400 laptop

Hoping that this is for evaluation only....

 

[danb35]

Orthogonal to your question, but the chances that any laptop is a good hardware choice for FreeNAS are close enough to zero as to make no difference. It might be OK to do some basic testing on, but not for any kind of real use.

 

[Ericloewe]

Support for the vast majority of 10/100 Ethernet adapters was recently removed from FreeNAS.

 

[danb35]

Having now looked at some specs for that model, I'd like to revise my previous post--that hardware is absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inappropriate for anything having to do with any recent (8.x or newer) version of FreeNAS, whether testing or production. Nothing about it--from the FSB, to the 2 GB Max RAM, to the 10/100 network interface--belongs on a FreeNAS box.

Long ago, I ran the product then called FreeNAS (and now called NAS4Free) on a Dell laptop with an external USB hard drive. I think even NAS4Free has evolved past something that would run well on this machine, but you might want to look into it just to be sure.

 

[Stephanj]

Thanks all , I will just test it in Vm ware.