Not sure if this has been covered before, thought I might help shed a bit of light on the eternal question: How the heck can I install FreeNAS on an X4500 Thumper.
Literature claims you need to install any OS on either disc 0 or 1. The problem is those drives dont equate to disc 0 or 1, but rather the 24th and 28th (/dev/sdy and /dev/sdac for linux, ada24 and ada28 for FreeBSD). I'd wager once the OS is installed on either of those drives, you could technically mirror it to the other and be set for awhile.
Forgive me if this was stated before, I just wanted to share the fruits of a few days of toiling on this dinosaur.
Now to the reason for my visit: This frame has an older 82597EX PCIx fiber card which neither FreeBSD 11 nor FreeNAS 11u4 picked up on, and I am wondering if ixgb support was dropped entirely, and if so what is the newest version of FreeNAS that still supports it?
pciconf reports the following:
none2@pci0:14:1:0: class=0x020000 card=0x7036108e chip=0x10488086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82597EX 10GbE Ethernet Controller'
class = network
and dmesg:
pci11: <network, ethernet> at device 1.0 (no driver attached)
So the system 'sees' it but doesnt know how to 'talk' to it. Trying to find ixgb drivers I can compile and add back to the frame turns out to be an exercise in frustration since ixgbe seems to have taken the relay.
Thanks,
Ben
Literature claims you need to install any OS on either disc 0 or 1. The problem is those drives dont equate to disc 0 or 1, but rather the 24th and 28th (/dev/sdy and /dev/sdac for linux, ada24 and ada28 for FreeBSD). I'd wager once the OS is installed on either of those drives, you could technically mirror it to the other and be set for awhile.
Forgive me if this was stated before, I just wanted to share the fruits of a few days of toiling on this dinosaur.
Now to the reason for my visit: This frame has an older 82597EX PCIx fiber card which neither FreeBSD 11 nor FreeNAS 11u4 picked up on, and I am wondering if ixgb support was dropped entirely, and if so what is the newest version of FreeNAS that still supports it?
pciconf reports the following:
none2@pci0:14:1:0: class=0x020000 card=0x7036108e chip=0x10488086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82597EX 10GbE Ethernet Controller'
class = network
and dmesg:
pci11: <network, ethernet> at device 1.0 (no driver attached)
So the system 'sees' it but doesnt know how to 'talk' to it. Trying to find ixgb drivers I can compile and add back to the frame turns out to be an exercise in frustration since ixgbe seems to have taken the relay.
Thanks,
Ben